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Radeon R9 270X vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

The Radeon R9 270X features a core clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1400 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 280X, which has a core clock speed of 850 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 280X 8886 points
Radeon R9 270X 6590 points
Difference: 2296 (35%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280X 294 Sol/s
Radeon R9 270X 177 Sol/s
Difference: 117 (66%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280X 21 Mh/s
Radeon R9 270X 18 Mh/s
Difference: 3 (17%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270X 180 Watts
Radeon R9 280X 250 Watts
Difference: 70 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 280X should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 270X in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X 288000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270X 179200 MB/sec
Difference: 108800 (61%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280X should be a lot (approximately 36%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 270X. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X 108800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270X 80000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 28800 (36%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 270X is superior to the Radeon R9 280X, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X 32000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280X 27200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4800 (18%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R9 270X Radeon R9 280X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2013 October 2013
Code Name Curacao XT Tahiti XTL
Memory 2048 MB 3072 MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 5600 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 180 watts 250 watts
Bandwidth 179200 MB/sec 288000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 80000 Mtexels/sec 108800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32000 Mpixels/sec 27200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1280 2048
Texture Mapping Units 80 128
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 384-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2800 million 4313 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Comments

7 Responses to “Radeon R9 270X vs Radeon R9 280X”
Duu says:

Hello, i have a question.
appears in yours table that the memory bandwidth is measured by MB/s, however I see in another website that measured memory bandwidth as GB/s , wich one is correct ?
Thanks, and sorry for my bad english 😛

nima says:

mb/s should be more accurate

SAM says:

their both correct 1 gb equals 1024 mb, so the Memory Bandwidth of amd r9 280x which is 179200 mb would be around 175gb/sec

vahid_dez says:

hi i have 530 watt power suply.
it's enoght for r9 280x ???

Robin says:

@vahid_dez. yes it will.

rob says:

i am just wondering if upgrading from the R9270 2 gb to the R280X 3g will help me with locked $g video i experience from time to time it will be 100.00 differece in price thx rob

rob says:

locked in 4k video

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