AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Jun 2015
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Pirate Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM
Memory Bus
384bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
512.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
64
Shading Units
2048
4096
TMUs
128
256
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
67.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
268.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
8.602 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
537.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.602 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Fiji
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
Fiji XT C8(215-0862040)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
8.9 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
596 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
275W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a3x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.170
Shader Model
5.1
6.5