Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon R9 M385X

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2014 May 2015
Generation Volcanic Islands Gem System
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 827 MHz 1000 MHz
Boost Clock 933 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 128bit
Bandwidth 240.0GB/s 76.80GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 28 14
Shading Units 1792 896
TMUs 112 56
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 17.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 104.5 GTexel/s 61.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.344 TFLOPS 1.971 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 836.0 GFLOPS 123.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Strato
GPU Variant Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330) Strato XT
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 Unknown
Suggested PSU 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2.170
Shader Model 5.1 6.5