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| 6.9 Out of 10 |  |
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of the Radeon R9 280 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 | |
Value | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 6.9 | Overall Score |
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Benchmarks Real world tests of the Radeon R9 280
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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Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
| GPU brand | AMD |
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| GPU name | Tahiti |
| Market | Desktop |
| Clock speed | 827 MHz |
| Turbo clock speed | 933 MHz |
| Is dual GPU | No |
| Reference card | None |
raw performance
| Shading units | 1,792 |
|---|---|
| Texture mapping units | 112 |
| Render output processors | 32 |
| Compute units | 28 |
| Pixel rate | 29.86 GPixel/s |
| Texture rate | 104.5 GTexel/s |
| Floating-point performance | 3,344 GFLOPS |
memory
| Memory clock speed | 1,250 MHz |
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| Effective memory clock speed | 5,000 MHz |
| Memory bus | 384 bit |
| Memory | 3,072 MB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory bandwidth | 240 GB/s |
noise and power
| TDP | 200W |
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Competitors
 | Generic Radeon R9 280X
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 770
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
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 | AMD Radeon R9 380
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 | AMD Radeon HD 7950
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 | Sapphire Radeon R9 270X
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Other Radeon R9 280s
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 | ASUS Radeon R9 280 DirectCU II TOP
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 | GIGABYTE Radeon R9 280 WindForce 3X OC
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