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AMD Radeon R9 280
GPUBoss recommends the AMD Radeon R9 280 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released March, 2014
AMD Radeon R9 280
- 827 MHz
- 3 GB GDDR5
6.7 Out of 10
by hassan-mujtaba (Oct, 2013)The GPU core clock is maintained at 1000 MHz and the boost clock is configured at 1050 MHz.
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Released January, 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7950
- 800 MHz
- 3 GB GDDR5
7.4 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Jan, 2012)Thanks to PowerColor's dual fan cooler the card is a lot quieter than the AMD reference design, and runs cooler too - pretty impressive!
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of R9 280 vs 7950 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 7.4 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Slightly better PassMark score | 5,311 | vs | 4,764 | More than 10% better PassMark score | |||
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| Slightly better floating-point performance | 3,344 GFLOPS | vs | 2,867.2 GFLOPS | More than 15% better floating-point performance | |||
| Slightly higher texture rate | 104.5 GTexel/s | vs | 89.6 GTexel/s | More than 15% higher texture rate | |||
| Slightly higher pixel rate | 29.86 GPixel/s | vs | 25.6 GPixel/s | More than 15% higher pixel rate | |||
| Slightly better manhattan score | 3,719.56 | vs | 1,857.58 | More than 2x better manhattan score | |||
| Slightly better video composition score | 108.19 frames/s | vs | 97.31 frames/s | More than 10% better video composition score | |||
| Slightly better PassMark direct compute score | 3,208 | vs | 2,725 | Around 20% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
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| Slightly better fire strike factor score | 57.91 | vs | 55.14 | More than 5% better fire strike factor score | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon R9 280 vs HD 7950
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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