AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2014
Nov 2021
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Radeon Instinct
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
827 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
1700 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
128GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Memory Bus
384bit
8192bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
3277GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
220
Shading Units
1792
14080
TMUs
112
880
ROPs
32
0
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
0 MPixel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
1496 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
47.87 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
47.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
383.0 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Aldebaran
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Aldebaran XT
Architecture
GCN 1.0
CDNA 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
6 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
58.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
Unknown
Board Design
TDP
200W
500W
Suggested PSU
550 W
900 W
Outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
N/A