AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and AMD Radeon R9 280 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

AMD Radeon R9 280

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 71% higher boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 933 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 4 March 2014
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz vs 933 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 280

4x more pipelines: 1792 vs 448
Around 88% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2009 vs 1069

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	1792 vs 448
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2009 vs 1069

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 280

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1069

2009

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	AMD Radeon R9 280
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069	2009
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203
PassMark - G3D Mark		5543
PassMark - G2D Mark		667
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 Vega 7	AMD Radeon R9 280
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	GCN 1.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Tahiti
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	4 March 2014
Place in performance rating	1317	427
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$279
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	933 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	448	1792
Floating-point performance		3,344 gflops
Stream Processors		1792
Texture fill rate		104.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		200 Watt
Transistor count		4,313 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
OpenGL		4.5
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		275 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		3 GB
Memory bandwidth		240 GB/s
Memory bus width		384 Bit
Memory clock speed		1250 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)