AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon R9 370X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1030MHz vs 933MHz)
Lower TDP (180W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+26%
3.344 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 370X
2.637 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Aug 2015
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
980 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1030 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
24
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1792
Shading Units
1280
112
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
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16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.96 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
82.40 GTexel/s
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3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.637 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
164.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
180W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Trinidad
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Trinidad XT
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
212 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
