Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX 570X vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2018 Oct 2013
Generation Polaris Volcanic Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1168 MHz 850 MHz
Boost Clock 1244 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 384bit
Bandwidth 224.0GB/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 2 MB 768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 39.81 GPixel/s 32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 159.2 GTexel/s 128.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 5.095 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 5.095 TFLOPS 4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 318.5 GFLOPS 1024 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Polaris 20 Tahiti
GPU Variant Polaris 20 XL(215-0910052) Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5.7 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 232 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 150W 250W
Suggested PSU 450 W 600 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 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 1.2
Shader Model 6.4 5.1