AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 16 GB, 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
14149 points
738% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS
291 FPS
251 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS
217 FPS
192 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS
278 FPS
243 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
134 FPS
120 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2350 points
6282 points
167% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz
2520 MHz
152% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB
16 GiB
433% significantly more memory

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
640 GB/s
122% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

32 Gigapixels/s
322.6 Gigapixels/s
908% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS
36.1 TFLOPS
781% significantly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
128
300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 586
23rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series
Radeon RX 9000 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 280X vs Radeon RX 9070 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 280X in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 9070 has significantly more memory with 16 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 9070 over the Radeon R9 280X.

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