AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

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AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 76% (1757MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (125W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +31%

5.398 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Unknown

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1187 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

1757 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

32

1536

Shading Units

2048

96

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

168.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

10.80 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.398 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

337.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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