AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Tahiti Navi 14
GPU variant Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330) Navi 14 XTM
Architecture GCN 1.0 RDNA 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 7 nm
Number of transistors 4,313 million 6,400 million
Die size 352 mm² 158 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 1375 MHz
Boost clock 933 MHz 1645 MHz
Memory clock 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective 1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective
Game clock 1448 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory bus width 384 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 240.0 GB/s 224.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1792 1408
TMUs 112 88
ROPs 32 32
Compute units 28 22
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 768 KB 2 MB

Performance

Pixel rate 29.86 GPixel/s 52.64 GPixel/s
Texture rate 104.5 GTexel/s 144.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 3.344 TFLOPS 4.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 836.0 GFLOPS (1:4) 289.5 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (half) performance 9.265 TFLOPS (2:1)

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 85 W
Suggested PSU 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI2x HDMI1x DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Board number C386

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 5.1 6.5

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Oct 7th, 2019
Generation Mobility Radeon (Navi)
Successor Mobility Radeon
Production Active
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8
Predecessor Crystal System

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