AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 7600

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7600 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7600

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 249.99

$ 149.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

8122 points

534% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

173 FPS

142 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

126 FPS

108 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

153 FPS

126 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

67 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2043 points

2312 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

933 MHz

2655 MHz

184% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

240 GB/s

288 GB/s

20% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

165 W

51% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.86 Gigapixels/s

169.9 Gigapixels/s

468% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

339.8 Gigatexels/s

225% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.34 TFLOPS

21.75 TFLOPS

550% significantly better floating point performance

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

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

244th of 586

52nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon RX 7600 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 7600 graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 280 in our tests.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7600 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 7600 has a significantly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280 at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 7600 is faster than the Radeon R9 280.