AMD Radeon R9 280 Graphics Card

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Learn more about AMD Radeon R9 280:

Specifications

Generation
Volcanic Islands
GPU model
Tahiti
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Base clock
827 MHz
Memory size
3 GB
DirectX
12 (11_1)
Release date
Mar 4th, 2014

Graphics Processor

GPU model
Tahiti
GPU variant
Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
Manufacturing process
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
Die size
352 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date
Mar 4th, 2014
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Production
End-of-life
Launch price
279 USD
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews
35 in our database
Predecessor
Sea Islands
Successor
Pirate Islands

Clocks

Base clock
827 MHz
Boost clock
933 MHz
Memory clock
1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size
3 GB
Memory type
GDDR5
Memory bus width
384 bit
Bandwidth
240.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units
1792
TMUs
112
ROPs
32
Compute units
28
Cache L1
16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2
768 KB

Performance

Pixel rate
29.86 GPixel/s
Texture rate
104.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance
3.344 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance
836.0 GFLOPS (1:4)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width
Dual-slot
Length
275 mm 10.8 inches
Width
109 mm 4.3 inches
Height
36 mm 1.4 inches
TDP
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI1x DisplayPort
Power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board number
C386

API Support & Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
Shader model
5.1

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