AMD Radeon R9 280 vs ATI Radeon HD 3570

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 7.920GB/s)

1752 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3570 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +5125%

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3570

0.064 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon HD 3570

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jul 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

495 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

7.920GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

2

1792

Shading Units

40

112

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.184 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.184 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

63.68 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV620

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

30W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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