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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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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of R9 280 vs R9 270X among Desktop GPUs
Gaming | |
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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 | |
| 6.5 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Higher memory bandwidth | 240 GB/s | vs | 179.2 GB/s | Around 35% higher memory bandwidth | |||
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| Slightly better PassMark score | 5,311 | vs | 4,658 | Around 15% better PassMark score | |||
| More memory | 3,072 MB | vs | 2,048 MB | 50% more memory | |||
| Significantly better T-Rex score | 8.22 frames/s | vs | 4.36 frames/s | Around 90% better T-Rex score | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 3,344 GFLOPS | vs | 2,688 GFLOPS | Around 25% better floating-point performance | |||
| Significantly better PassMark direct compute score | 3,208 | vs | 1,062 | More than 3x better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Higher texture rate | 104.5 GTexel/s | vs | 84 GTexel/s | Around 25% higher texture rate | |||
| More shading units | 1,792 | vs | 1,280 | 512 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 112 | vs | 80 | 32 more texture mapping units | |||
| Wider memory bus | 384 bit | vs | 256 bit | 50% wider memory bus | |||
| More compute units | 28 | vs | 20 | 8 more compute units | |||
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| Higher clock speed | 1,000 MHz | vs | 827 MHz | More than 20% higher clock speed | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 5,600 MHz | vs | 5,000 MHz | More than 10% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher turbo clock speed | 1,050 MHz | vs | 933 MHz | Around 15% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,400 MHz | vs | 1,250 MHz | More than 10% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Slightly lower TDP | 180W | vs | 200W | 10% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon R9 280 vs 270X
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
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