AMD Radeon R9 280X: specs and benchmarks

Summary
AMD started Radeon R9 280X sales 8 October 2013 at a recommended price of $299. 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 are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 288 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 250 Watt.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 27.32 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.
General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
NVIDIA equivalent
Advices and comments
General info
Of Radeon R9 280X's architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Code name
Tahiti
Type
Desktop
Design
reference
Release date
8 October 2013
Technical specs
Radeon R9 280X'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 280X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Transistor count
4,313 million
of 21100
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon R9 280X'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 280X: 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
Shared memory
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 280X.
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
HDMI
+
DisplayPort support
+
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R9 280X. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
AppAcceleration
+
CrossFire
+
FreeSync
+
HD3D
+
LiquidVR
+
TressFX
+
TrueAudio
+
UVD
+
DDMA audio
+
Eyefinity
+
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R9 280X, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
DirectX® 12
OpenGL
4.6
Vulkan
+
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon R9 280X. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
27.32
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
285376
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
52117
3DMark Fire Strike Score
7368
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
8343
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
10792
3DMark Vantage Performance
33045
Unigine Heaven 3.0
95
Unigine Heaven 4.0
1017
Passmark
5837
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score
8870
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 280X. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)
494 Mh/s
Decred / DCR (Decred)
1.07 Gh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)
14.42 Mh/s
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight)
0.5 kh/s
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash)
285 Sol/s
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon R9 280X is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon R9 280X performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 280X from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 960, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our rating.