AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 280
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2015
Mar 2014
Generation
Pirate Islands
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
827 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
933 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
28
Shading Units
768
1792
TMUs
48
112
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
16.80 GPixel/s
29.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.613 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
100.8 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tobago
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Tobago PRO(215-0875010)
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
85W
200W
Suggested PSU
250 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.