Radeon R9 280X2 and Radeon RX 5500 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon R9 280X2
Radeon RX 5500 OEM
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Navi 14
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
October 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
3x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1845 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
6,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
375 Watt
110 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
162.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6 GB/s
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288.0 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2.131