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Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon RX 6650 XT

Intro

The Radeon R9 280 comes with a core clock speed of 933 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also features a 384-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6650 XT, which features core clock speeds of 2055 MHz on the GPU, and 2190 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 176 Watts
Radeon R9 280 250 Watts
Difference: 74 Watts (42%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6650 XT is 20% faster than the Radeon R9 280 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 287072 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280 240000 MB/sec
Difference: 47072 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6650 XT will be a lot (more or less 152%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 263040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280 104496 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 158544 (152%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6650 XT will be a lot (more or less 341%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 280, and able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 131520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280 29856 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 101664 (341%)

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 280 Radeon RX 6650 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year March 2014 May 2022
Code Name Tahiti Pro Navi 23
Memory 3072 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 933 MHz 2055 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz 4380 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 176 watts
Bandwidth 240000 MB/sec 287072 MB/sec
Texel Rate 104496 Mtexels/sec 263040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29856 Mpixels/sec 131520 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1792 2048
Texture Mapping Units 112 128
Render Output Units 32 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 384-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 4313 million 11060 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon R9 280

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Radeon RX 6650 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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