AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 0.99 slightly less expensive

$ 399.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

12841 points

903% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

272 FPS

241 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

179 FPS

160 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

248 FPS

222 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

105 FPS

95 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2043 points

3316 points

62% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

827 MHz

1800 MHz

117% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

933 MHz

2544 MHz

172% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

12 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

240 GB/s

432 GB/s

79% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

245 W

2% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.86 Gigapixels/s

244 Gigapixels/s

717% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

550 Gigatexels/s

426% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.34 TFLOPS

18.02 TFLOPS

438% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

4096

128% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

216

92% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

251st of 599

29th of 599

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

4.6

Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon RX 7700 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7700 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 280 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 7700 XT has a significantly 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 7700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 7700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 7700 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 245 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280 at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 7700 XT over the Radeon R9 280.