AMD Radeon R9 280 vs Intel Arc A730M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2014
Jan 2022
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Alchemist
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
827 MHz
300 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
1100 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
336.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
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Shading Units
1792
3072
TMUs
112
192
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
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L2 Cache
768 KB
12 MB
RT Cores
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24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
105.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
211.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
6.758 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
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FP16 (half)
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13.52 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
DG2-512
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
ACM-G10
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Generation 12.7
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
6 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
21.7 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
406 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
80W
Suggested PSU
550 W
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Outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.