AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs AMD Radeon E8950

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Unknown
Sep 2015
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Embedded
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
950 MHz
735 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1500 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
192.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
32
32
Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
256.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.096 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
Amethyst
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
E8950
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
5 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
366 mm²

Board Design

TDP
375W
95W
Suggested PSU
750 W
-
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.3