AMD Radeon R9 280X vs 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 32 MB

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AMD Radeon R9 280X 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 32 MB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 32MB VRAM Voodoo4 2 4200 PCI 32 MB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 2.656GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 32 MB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 250W)

Score

Radeon R9 280X

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Voodoo4 2 4200 PCI 32 MB

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Voodoo4-2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

166 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

32MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

2.656GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

2

32

ROPs

2

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

332.0 MPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

332.0 MTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

VSA-101

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Daytona (355-0025-221)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Voodoo Scalable

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

180 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.014 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

112 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

15W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

6.0

4.6

OpenGL

1.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

-

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