AMD Radeon R9 M485X vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2016
Oct 2013
Generation
Crystal System
Volcanic Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
850 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
288.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
32
32
Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
768 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
23.14 GPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
92.54 GTexel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
2.961 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
2.961 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
185.1 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Amethyst
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Amethyst XT
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
Architecture
GCN 3.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
366 mm²
352 mm²

Board Design

TDP
250W
250W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
600 W

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.3
5.1