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Radeon HD 7970 vs Radeon R9 280

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Performance score

Radeon HD 7970 · 3 GB GDDR5
7.00 +10%
Radeon R9 280 · 3 GB GDDR5
6.36
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Radeon HD 7970 is 10% faster than Radeon R9 280 by our estimate.

The score is our own estimate from the specs (core count, clock, architecture), not FPS from benchmarks. 100 = the fastest card in our database.

Overview

Radeon HD 7970Radeon R9 280
Score (0–100) 7 6.36
Ranking position 189 197
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Type Desktop Desktop
Architecture GCN GCN

Specifications

Radeon HD 7970Radeon R9 280
Shader cores 2048 1792
Boost clock 925 MHz 933 MHz
FP32 TFLOPS (calculated) 3.79 3.34
Hardware ray tracing no no

Video memory

Radeon HD 7970Radeon R9 280
VRAM 3 GB 3 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bandwidth 264 GB/s 240 GB/s

Pros and cons

Radeon HD 7970

  • 10% higher overall score
  • higher memory bandwidth: 264 vs 240 GB/s

Radeon R9 280

  • no notable advantages

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