Sapphire Dual-X R9 280X OC
- 11221-00
- Graphics Processor
- Tahiti
- Cores
- 2048
- TMUs
- 128
- ROPs
- 32
- Memory Size
- 3 GB
- Memory Type
- GDDR5
- Bus Width
- 384 bit
Graphics Processor
Graphics Card
- Release Date
- Oct 8th, 2013
- Generation
-
Volcanic Islands
(R9 200)
- Predecessor
- Sea Islands
- Successor
- Pirate Islands
- Production
- End-of-life
- Bus Interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
- Base Clock
850 MHz
870 MHz (+2%)
- Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1020 MHz (+2%)
- Memory Clock
-
1500 MHz
6 Gbps effective
Memory
- Memory Size
- 3 GB
- Memory Type
- GDDR5
- Memory Bus
- 384 bit
- Bandwidth
- 288.0 GB/s
Render Config
- Shading Units
- 2048
- TMUs
- 128
- ROPs
- 32
- Compute Units
- 32
- L1 Cache
- 16 KB (per CU)
- L2 Cache
- 768 KB
Theoretical Performance
- Pixel Rate
-
32.00 GPixel/s
32.64 GPixel/s
- Texture Rate
-
128.0 GTexel/s
130.6 GTexel/s
- FP32 (float) performance
-
4.096 TFLOPS
4.178 TFLOPS
- FP64 (double) performance
-
1,024 GFLOPS
1,044 GFLOPS (1:4)
Board Design
- Slot Width
- Dual-slot
- Length
275 mm
262 mm
10.8 inches
10.3 inches
- TDP
- 250 W
- Suggested PSU
- 600 W
- Outputs
- 2x DVI
1x HDMI
1x DisplayPort
- Power Connectors
- 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
- Board Number
- C386
Graphics Features
- DirectX
- 12 (11_1)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 1.2
- Vulkan
- 1.2
- Shader Model
- 5.1
Card Notes
Rebranded HD 7970 |
Tahiti GPU Notes
Architecture Codename: Southern Islands CLRX Version: GCN 1.0 Graphics/Compute: GFX6 (gfx600) Display Core Engine: 6.0 Unified Video Decoder: 3.2 Video Compression Engine: 1.0 Exact Transistor Count: 4,312,711,873 |
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