AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo, 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

1687 points
2170 points
28% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS
47 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS
30 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS
47 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
16 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

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

288 GB/s
512 GB/s
77% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W
40% slightly lower TDP
350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

32 Gigapixels/s
64 Gigapixels/s
100% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128 Gigatexels/s
256 Gigatexels/s
100% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS
11.5 TFLOPS
180% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
4096
100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
256
100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
64
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 586
196th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series
Radeon PRO

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
HBM

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

Radeon R9 280X vs Radeon Pro Duo comparison

For gaming, the Radeon R9 280X graphics card is better than the Radeon Pro Duo in our tests.

In addition, the Radeon R9 280X has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the Radeon Pro Duo at 350 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 R9 280X is better than the Radeon Pro Duo.

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