AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

1836 points

43% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

37 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

27 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

40 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

14 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2043 points

3877 points

89% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

827 MHz

1168 MHz

41% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

933 MHz

1284 MHz

37% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

240 GB/s

7% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

150 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.86 Gigapixels/s

41.09 Gigapixels/s

37% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

164.4 Gigatexels/s

57% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.34 TFLOPS

5.26 TFLOPS

57% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

2048

14% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

128

14% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

244th of 586

218th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon RX 580 2048SP specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 280 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 580 2048SP has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280 at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP is better than the Radeon R9 280.