AMD Radeon R9 280 Benchmark and Specs

AMD Radeon R9 280 GPU benchmark and specs - 3 GB AMD Radeon R9 200 Series Graphics card rating. How good is the Radeon R9 280 for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

1,280

Average score from 5 samples
Medium uncertainty

Performance

Average

Ranking

244th of 586

Popularity

402nd of 586

Samples

5 benchmarks

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AMD Radeon RX 590	2,466 points
AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP	1,836 points
AMD Radeon R9 200	1,289 points
AMD Radeon R9 280	1,280 points
Intel Iris Xe	974 points
AMD Radeon RX 560	825 points
AMD Radeon RX 550	621 points

GPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this graphics card in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks. All tests were performed at 1920 x 1080 resolution.

Flux Core

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

63 FPS average

40 FPS 10% low

33 FPS 1% low

Electron

Randomly generated noise sphere test

39 FPS average

38 FPS 10% low

29 FPS 1% low

City

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS average

41 FPS 10% low

40 FPS 1% low

Clouds

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS average

19 FPS 10% low

10 FPS 1% low

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Alternative benchmarks

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3DMark Graphics

High-end graphics benchmark

2,043

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Specifications

Core Clock	827 MHz
Boost Clock	933 MHz
Memory Type	GDDR5
Memory Size	3 GiB
Bus Width	384 bit
Memory Bandwidth	240 GB/s
TDP	250 W
Floating Point Performance	3.34 TFLOP/s
Family	Radeon R9 200 Series
PCIe Revision	3.0
DirectX Support	12
OpenGL Support	4.5
Pixel Rate	29.86 Gigapixels/s
Texture Rate	104.5 Gigatexels/s
Shading Units	1792
Texture Mapping Units	112
Render Output Processors	32

AMD Radeon R9 280

Thanks to our GPU Benchmark, we have measured the AMD Radeon R9 280 as an average gaming performer a score of 1280 points.

The Radeon R9 280 has 3 GiB of GDDR5 memory, with a total memory bandwidth of 234 GB/s. The memory bus has a width of 384 bits. More memory is beneficial when gaming at high resolutions as the memory needs to store the frame buffer and all the game textures. If you run out of memory, you will experience poor performance as the GPU needs to swap data in and out of the memory as it is used.

In terms of clock speed, the Radeon R9 280 GPU core runs at a frequency of 827 MHz and if power and temperature permits, it can boost up to 933 MHz. The core clock is directly related to the performance of a GPU, the higher the clock, the more processing can be done per second. A higher clock does not guarantee better performance by itself, this also depends on the number of shading units and other elements of the pipeline.

As for rendering API support, the Radeon R9 280 supports up to DirectX 12. In addition, in cross-platform titles, OpenGL 4.5 features are supported. Newer APIs are usually more efficient, allowing for better performance in games and better graphical effects.

The AMD Radeon R9 280 has a TDP of 250W, this is the amount of heat energy produced by the chip as a byproduct. The higher the TDP, the more heat is produced.

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