AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 570X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2014
Apr 2018
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
827 MHz
1168 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
1244 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
32
Shading Units
1792
2048
TMUs
112
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
39.81 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
159.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
5.095 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
318.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
5.095 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Polaris 20
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Polaris 20 XL(215-0910052)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
150W
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.