AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2014
Jun 2017
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Radeon Pro Mac
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
827 MHz
1250 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
1350 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
786 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
384bit
2048bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
402.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
64
Shading Units
1792
4096
TMUs
112
256
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
86.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
345.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
11.06 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
691.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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22.12 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Vega 10
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Vega 10 XT(215-0894200)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 5.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
12.5 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
495 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
250W
Suggested PSU
550 W
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Outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.