Comparison of AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and Radeon R9 280X

Attribute	Radeon R9 280X ×	AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2013	2012
Reference card	AMD Radeon R9 280X 850 MHz 3 GB	AMD Radeon HD 7970 925 MHz 3 GB
GPU brand	AMD	AMD
^1↑GPU name	Tahiti	Tahiti XT2
Market	Desktop	Desktop
Clock speed (MHz)	850	1,000
Turbo clock speed (MHz)	1,000	1,050
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	Radeon R9 280X	AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory
Memory (MB)	3,072	3,072
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	288	288
Memory bus (bit)	384	384
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	1,500	1,500
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	6,000	6,000
Noise and power
TDP (W)	250	300
Load power consumption (W)	-	360
Idle power consumption (W)	-	112
Load noise level (dB)	-	53.1
Idle noise level (dB)	-	40.2
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	32	33.6
Render output processors	32	32
Texture mapping units	128	128
Shading units	2,048	2,048
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	4,096	4,301
Compute units	32	32
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	128	134.4
Benchmarks
Crysis 3	-	28.3
Bioshock Infinite	-	78
Battlefield 4	39.9	-
Face detection (mPixels/s)	95.62	94.02
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0)	3356.04	2798.85
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0)	3709.16	2984.22
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	468.39	487.62
Sky Diver Factor	380.99	380.04
Thief	33.6	-
Fire Strike Factor	62.73	62.9