AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 280
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2020
Mar 2014
Generation
Radeon Pro Mac
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1187 MHz
827 MHz
Boost Clock
1757 MHz
933 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
28
Shading Units
1536
1792
TMUs
96
112
ROPs
32
32
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
L1 Cache
—
16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.22 GPixel/s
29.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
168.7 GTexel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
10.80 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
5.398 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
337.3 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Navi 14
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Navi 14 PRO XL
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Architecture
RDNA 1.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
6.4 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
158 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
125W
200W
Suggested PSU
300 W
550 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
Shader Model
6.5
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.