Radeon R9 270X vs Radeon R9 280
Summary
Radeon R9 270X
100%
Radeon R9 280
112%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270X |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 280 |
| Around 12% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 280
The Radeon R9 280 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon R9 270X | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Curacao (Curacao XT) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti PRO3) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,800 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 1792 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 28 |
| Core clock | 1000 MHz | vs | 827 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 112 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon R9 270X | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon R9 270X | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| TDP | 180 watts | vs | 200 watts |
| Release Date | 8 Oct 2013 | vs | 4 Mar 2014 |
Radeon R9 270X
32.00 GP/s
Radeon R9 280
29.86 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon R9 270X
80.00 GT/s
Radeon R9 280
104.50 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon R9 270X
179.00 GB/s
Radeon R9 280
240.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon R9 270X
2560.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 280
3344.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon R9 270X
8700
Radeon R9 280
9790
Points (higher is better)