Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon R9 280

Radeon RX 5500 XT
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Dec 2019
Radeon RX 5500 XT
Radeon R9 280
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2014
Radeon R9 280

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5500 XT

70 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 280 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 280

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 5500 XT

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5500 XT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5500 XTRadeon R9 280
GPU NameNavi 14 (Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396))vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO3)
Fab Process7 nmvs28 nm
Die Size158 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors6,400 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1408vs1792
Compute Units22vs28
Core clock1607 MHzvs827 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs88vs112

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5500 XTRadeon R9 280
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5500 XTRadeon R9 280
TDP130 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date12 Dec 2019vs4 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    59.04 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 280
    29.86 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    162.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 280
    104.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    224.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 280
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    5196.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 280
    3344.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better