AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
256 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages
Lower TDP (185W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+17%
3.344 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
2.842 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Jan 2012
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
24
-
-
-
1792
Shading Units
1536
112
TMUs
96
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
88.80 GTexel/s
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-
-
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.842 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
710.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
185W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Tahiti
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
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-
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
