AMD Radeon R9 280X: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The Radeon R9 280X is a graphics card by AMD, built on the 28 nm process and based on the Tahiti graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name
Tahiti
Model number
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
Die Size
352 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 8th, 2013
Family
Volcanic Islands
(R9 200)
Production
End-of-life
Launch Price
299 USD
Predecessor
Sea Islands
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

Memory Size
3 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384 bit
Bandwidth
288.0 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture fillrate
128.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance
1,024 GFLOPS (1:4)

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
6 Gbps effective

Render Config

Shading Units
2048
TMUs
128
ROPs
32
Compute Units
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB

Board Design

Slot Width
Dual-slot
Length
275 mm
10.8 inches
Width
109 mm
4.3 inches
Height
36 mm
1.4 inches
Thermal design power (TDP)
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
Display Connectors
2x DVI
1x HDMI
1x DisplayPort
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board Number
C386

API support

DirectX
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
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AMD Radeon R9 280X: GPU Specs & Benchmarks