AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon R9 280X

AMD 2013-10
G

AMD Radeon RX 9070

AMD 2025-03

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 2013
Mar 2025
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Navi IV
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
850 MHz
1330 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
2520 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
2518 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
644.6GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
32
56
Shading Units
2048
3584
TMUs
128
224
ROPs
32
128
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
768 KB
8 MB
Tensor Cores
-
112
RT Cores
-
56
L3 Cache
-
64 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
322.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
564.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
36.13 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
1129 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
72.25 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
Navi 48
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
Navi 48 XT(215-176600331)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
4 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
53.9 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
357 mm²

Board Design

TDP
250W
220W
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.8