Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon HD 8770 OEM

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2013 Sep 2013
Generation Volcanic Islands Sea Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 850 MHz
Boost Clock 1000 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 1024MB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 128bit
Bandwidth 288.0GB/s 96.00GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 14
Shading Units 2048 896
TMUs 128 56
ROPs 32 16
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 256 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 32.00 GPixel/s 16.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 128.0 GTexel/s 58.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.096 TFLOPS 1.882 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 1024 GFLOPS 117.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Bonaire
GPU Variant Tahiti XTL(215-0821065) Bonaire XT(215-0839039)
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 250W 85W
Suggested PSU 600 W 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
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