Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon Pro 560

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2014 Apr 2017
Generation Volcanic Islands Radeon Pro Mac
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 827 MHz
Boost Clock 933 MHz
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1270 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 128bit
Bandwidth 240.0GB/s 81.28GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 28 16
Shading Units 1792 1024
TMUs 112 64
ROPs 32 16
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.86 GPixel/s 14.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 104.5 GTexel/s 58.05 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.344 TFLOPS 1.858 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 836.0 GFLOPS 116.1 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 1.858 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Polaris 21
GPU Variant Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330) Polaris 21 XT(215-0908004)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 3 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 123 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 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.4