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Comparison of AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and Radeon R9 280X
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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
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
-
1
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Fire Strike Factor
62.73
62.9
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