AMD Radeon Pro V520 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro V520 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro V520 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (1600MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro V520 +120%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro V520

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Mar 2014

Radeon Pro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

28

2304

Shading Units

1792

144

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

14.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.373 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

460.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 12

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 12

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.313 billion

Unknown

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 2x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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