AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1183MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +176%

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

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Radeon RX 550X

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Dec 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

8

1792

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Lexa

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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