AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon RX 460
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Aug 2016
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Arctic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1090 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
112.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
14
Shading Units
2048
896
TMUs
128
56
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
19.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
67.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
2.150 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
134.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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2.150 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Baffin
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
Baffin PRO
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
3 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
123 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
75W
Suggested PSU
600 W
250 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
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
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
1,754
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
776
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
12
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
22
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.