AMD Radeon R9 280 Graphics Card
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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Benchmark & Performance
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