Radeon RX 570 and Radeon R9 280X2 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 570

Radeon R9 280X2

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Polaris 20 Ellesmere

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

3x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1244 MHz

1000 MHz

Core clock speed

1168 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

5,095 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

375 Watt

Texture fill rate

159.2

128.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

7000 MHz

6 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

288.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

2.0

2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

+

1.2.170

FreeSync

+

-