AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme GPU vs AMD Radeon R9 280
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jul 2025
Mar 2014
Generation
Console GPU
Volcanic Islands
Type
Game console
Desktop
Bus Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
800 MHz
827 MHz
Boost Clock
2700 MHz
933 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
3GB
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
16
28
Shading Units
1024
1792
TMUs
64
112
ROPs
48
32
RT Cores
16
-
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
8 MB
768 KB
L3 Cache
16 MB
-
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
129.6 GPixel/s
29.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
172.8 GTexel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
11.06 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
5.530 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
345.6 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Strix Point
Tahiti
GPU Variant
100-000001684
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Architecture
RDNA 3.5
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
4 nm
28 nm
Transistors
34 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
233 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
28W
200W
Outputs
1x USB Type-C
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
550 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
1.2
Shader Model
6.8
5.1