Comparison of Radeon R9 280X and Radeon RX 470 [S]ave
| Attribute |  Radeon RX 470 × |  Radeon R9 280X × |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | ||
| Release year (year) | 2016 | 2013 |
| Reference card | - | AMD Radeon R9 280X 850 MHz 3 GB |
| GPU brand | AMD | AMD |
| GPU name | Ellesmere | Tahiti |
| Market | Desktop | Desktop |
| Clock speed (MHz) | 926 | 850 |
| Turbo clock speed (MHz) | 1,206 | 1,000 |
| Is dual GPU | - | - |
| Model | Radeon RX 470 | Radeon R9 280X |
| Memory | ||
| Memory (MB) | 4,096 | 3,072 |
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 211.2 | 288 |
| Memory bus (bit) | 256 | 384 |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory clock speed (MHz) | 1,650 | 1,500 |
| Effective memory clock speed (MHz) | 6,600 | 6,000 |
| Noise and power | ||
| TDP (W) | 120 | 250 |
| Raw performance | ||
| Pixel rate (GPixel/s) | 38.6 | 32 |
| Render output processors | 32 | 32 |
| Texture mapping units | 128 | 128 |
| Shading units | 2,048 | 2,048 |
| Floating-point performance (GFLOPS) | 4,940 | 4,096 |
| Compute units | 32 | 32 |
| Texture rate (GTexel/s) | 154.4 | 128 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Crysis 3 | 48.9 | - |
| Battlefield 4 | 77 | 39.9 |
| Face detection (mPixels/s) | 111.59 | 95.62 |
| T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) | 3356.82 | 3356.04 |
| Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) | 3707.56 | 3709.16 |
| Bitcoin mining (mHash/s) | 511.36 | 468.39 |
| Sky Diver Factor | 383.43 | 380.99 |
| Thief | - | 33.6 |
| Fire Strike Factor | 67.3 | 62.73 |
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