Radeon R9 280X2 and Radeon RX 7950 XTX - video card comparison

Radeon R9 280X2

Radeon RX 7950 XTX

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

RDNA 3.0 (2022)

GPU code name

Tahiti

Navi 31

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

3x 8-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1000 MHz

3300 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

57,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

375 Watt

355 Watt

Texture fill rate

128.0

1,267

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

24 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

6 GB/s

20 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

288.0 GB/s

960.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

2.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.3