Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs AMD Radeon Sky 900

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Unknown Mar 2013
Generation Volcanic Islands Radeon Sky
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 950 MHz 825 MHz
Boost Clock 1000 MHz 950 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 384bit
Bandwidth 288.0GB/s 240.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 28
Shading Units 2048 1792
TMUs 128 112
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 32.00 GPixel/s 30.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 128.0 GTexel/s 106.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.096 TFLOPS 3.405 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 1024 GFLOPS 851.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Tahiti
GPU Variant Tahiti XTL(215-0821065) Orthrus
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 375W 300W
Suggested PSU 750 W 700 W
Outputs 6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 3x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 5.1