AMD Radeon R9 280: specs and benchmarks

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 30.90 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Technologies Benchmarks Mining NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

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

Place in performance rating

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 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Boost Clock

933 MHz

of 2025 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Transistor count

4,313 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

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 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 specs

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 32

Memory bus width

384 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

1250 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

240 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

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

4.6

Vulkan

Video card benchmarks 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

31.14

Passmark

5391

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

Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)

21.5 Mh/s

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon R9 280 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

126.73 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

100 %

AMD Radeon R9 280

99.19 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

94.37 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

93.95 %

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 slower by 1% and lower by 1 position in our rating.