Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon R9 280
Summary
Radeon R9 290X
165%
Radeon R9 280
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 290X |
| Around 65% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 280 |
| 90 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290X . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 290X
The Radeon R9 290X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon R9 290X | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Hawaii (Hawaii XT) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti PRO3) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 438 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 6,200 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 2816 | vs | 1792 |
| Compute Units | 44 | vs | 28 |
| Core clock | 1000 MHz | vs | 827 MHz |
| ROPs | 64 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 176 | vs | 112 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon R9 290X | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 512 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon R9 290X | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| TDP | 290 watts | vs | 200 watts |
| Release Date | 24 Oct 2013 | vs | 4 Mar 2014 |
Radeon R9 290X
64.00 GP/s
Radeon R9 280
29.86 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon R9 290X
176.00 GT/s
Radeon R9 280
104.50 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon R9 290X
320.00 GB/s
Radeon R9 280
240.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon R9 290X
5632.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 280
3344.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon R9 290X
16210
Radeon R9 280
9790
Points (higher is better)