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AMD Radeon R9 280: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 280 sales 4 March 2014 at a recommended price of $279. This is GCN 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 3 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. 1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 200 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 30.81 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

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General info

Of Radeon R9 280's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

102

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Code name

Tahiti

Type

Desktop

Design

reference

Release date

4 March 2014

Launch price (MSRP)

$279

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Technical specs

Radeon R9 280's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 280's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

1792

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Boost Clock

933 MHz

of 1815 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Transistor count

4,313 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

104.5 GTexel / s

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

Floating-point performance

3,344 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon R9 280's 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).

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

275 mm

Supplementary power connectors

1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 280: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that 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 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

384 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

1250 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

240 GB / s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 280.

Display Connectors

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

Eyefinity

HDMI

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R9 280. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire

FreeSync

HD3D

LiquidVR

TressFX

TrueAudio

UVD

DDMA audio

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R9 280, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DirectX® 12

OpenGL

4.5

of 4.6

Vulkan

Video card benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon R9 280. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

30.81

Passmark

5387

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

8020

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 280. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

408 Mh/s

Radeon R9 280 performance compared to Dota 2 official system requirements.

Radeon R9 280

minimum GeForce 8600 GT

Counter-Strike: GO

2012

Official system requirements

102.6 %

AMD Radeon R9 380

100.26 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

100 %

AMD Radeon R9 280

96.98 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

95.36 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

94.94 %

AMD Radeon R9 285

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 280 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our rating.