Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon E8870

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2014 Sep 2015
Generation Volcanic Islands Embedded
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 827 MHz
Boost Clock 933 MHz
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 128bit
Bandwidth 240.0GB/s 96.00GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 28 12
Shading Units 1792 768
TMUs 112 48
ROPs 32 16
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 256 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.86 GPixel/s 16.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 104.5 GTexel/s 48.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.344 TFLOPS 1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 836.0 GFLOPS 96.00 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Saturn
GPU Variant Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330) Saturn PRO
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 2.08 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 160 mm²
Board Design
TDP 200W 75W
Suggested PSU 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 No outputs
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.3