Radeon Graphics 384SP vs HD 8280

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1181not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.06no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameKalindiCezanne
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 September 2013 (11 years ago)13 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores128384
Core clock speed450 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1700 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate3.60040.80
Floating-point processing power0.1152 TFLOPS1.306 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs824

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceIGPIGP
WidthIGPIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
Shared memory++

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 September 2013 13 April 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 45 Watt

HD 8280 has 200% lower power consumption.

Graphics 384SP, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8280 and Radeon Graphics 384SP. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 8280
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