AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon R9 280

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) and AMD Radeon R9 280 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 37% higher boost clock speed: 1275 MHz vs 933 MHz
  • 780.9x more texture fill rate: 81.60 GTexel/s vs 104.5 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 3.1x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 200 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 3 GB
  • 5.6x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Launch date 3 April 2018 vs 4 March 2014
Boost clock speed 1275 MHz vs 933 MHz
Texture fill rate 81.60 GTexel/s vs 104.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt vs 200 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 3 GB
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 280

  • Around 75% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1024
  • 1286.2x better floating-point performance: 3,344 gflops vs 2.6 TFLOPs
  • Around 10% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2009 vs 1826
  • Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 665 vs 435
  • Around 74% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5568 vs 3197
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 1792 vs 1024
Floating-point performance 3,344 gflops vs 2.6 TFLOPs
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2009 vs 1826
PassMark - G2D Mark 665 vs 435
PassMark - G3D Mark 5568 vs 3197

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 280

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
1826
2009
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
435
665
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3197
5568
Name AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) AMD Radeon R9 280
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1826 2009
Geekbench - OpenCL 20572
PassMark - G2D Mark 435 665
PassMark - G3D Mark 3197 5568
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 67.829
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1266.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.495
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 79.909
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 365.384
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3337
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3337

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) AMD Radeon R9 280

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Baffin Tahiti
Design Radeon RX 500X Series AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 3 April 2018 4 March 2014
Place in performance rating 468 422
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $279

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1275 MHz 933 MHz
Compute units 14/16
Core clock speed 1175 MHz
Floating-point performance 2.6 TFLOPs 3,344 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1024 1792
Pixel fill rate 20.40 GP/s
Render output units 16
Stream Processors 896/1024 1792
Texture fill rate 81.60 GTexel/s 104.5 GTexel / s
Texture Units 64
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 200 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 4,313 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Length 275 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 12
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s 240 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)