Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 M470X vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date May 2016 Oct 2013
Generation Gem System Volcanic Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1000 MHz 850 MHz
Boost Clock 1100 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Clock 1200 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 128bit 384bit
Bandwidth 76.80GB/s 288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 14 32
Shading Units 896 2048
TMUs 56 128
ROPs 16 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 256 KB 768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 17.60 GPixel/s 32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 61.60 GTexel/s 128.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.971 TFLOPS 4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 123.2 GFLOPS 1024 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Emerald Tahiti
GPU Variant Emerald XT Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
Architecture GCN 2.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.08 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 160 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP Unknown 250W
Outputs Portable Device Dependent 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Suggested PSU 600 W
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.170 1.2
Shader Model 6.5 5.1