AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, 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

115% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2043 points

43% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

827 MHz

175% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

933 MHz

2000 MHz

114% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

45 W

455% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.86 Gigapixels/s

86% significantly higher pixel rate

16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

63% significantly higher texture rate

64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.34 TFLOPS

63% significantly better floating point performance

2.05 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

250% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

250% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

245th of 586

309th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

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 Vega 8 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 280 GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon R9 280 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280 at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 280 is faster than the Radeon Vega 8.