3D Rage IIC PCI vs Radeon R9 280X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Oct 2013
Rage 2
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
850 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
83 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
3GB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
1
TMUs
128
1
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
250W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
Tahiti
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
Rage 2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
500 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
12 (11_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
Shader Model
5.1
