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AMD Radeon R9 280 technical specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 280 sales 4 March 2014 at a recommended price of 279 USD. This is a GCN 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 3072 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 240 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 275 mm. An additional 1 power connector 6-pin and 1 power connector 8-pin are required, and power consumption is at 200 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 34.20 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN Xp.

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General info

Info on video card type (desktop or notebook), its architecture and sales start time and price.

Place in performance rating

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Code name

Tahiti

Type

Desktop

Design

reference

Release date

4 March 2014

Launch price (MSRP)

279 USD

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Technical specs

Quantitative parameters such as shaders number, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly say of video card performance, but to be more precise you have to review it's benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

1792

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Boost Clock

933 MHz

of 1771 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)

Transistor count

4,313 million

of 21100 (Tesla V100 PCIe)

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 12 (Tesla V100 PCIe)

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

104.5

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

3,344 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on video card compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus - if the video card is inserted into the slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

275 mm

Width

2-slot

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Required power supply connectors

1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on the video card - type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

of 32 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

384 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

1250 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp)

Memory bandwidth

240 GB/s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Video outputs and ports

Video connectors present on the video card. Mostly actual for desktop video cards since notebook ones' available video connectors vastly depend on the notebook model.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Eyefinity

HDMI