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To figure out your graphics card specs and performance download our free GPU Benchmark utility. This isn't a measure of power consumption, but it's good estimate. This measures the amount of heat the GPU produces when running at 100%. Power and thermals for the AMD Radeon R9 280X are a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 250 watts. The raw technical specs of the Radeon R9 280X are: 2048 total shading units (general purpose parallel cores capable of processing different aspects of the graphics pipeline), 128 texture mapping units (specialised processors in texture operations, this determines the texture rate) and 32 render output processors or units (the final step in the rendering pipeline, responsible for rasterising the image) Newer APIs are usually more efficient allowing for better performance in games and better graphical effects. In addition, in cross platform titles OpenGL 4.5 features are supported.
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Furthermore, it a texture fill rate of 128 Gigatexels/s, the number of pixels the GPU can rendering per second.Īs for rendering API support, the Radeon R9 280X supports up to DirectX 12. In addition, this AMD GPU has a pixel rate of 32 Gigapixels/s, the number of pixels the GPU is capable of outputting every second. The performance specs of the Radeon R9 280X are a raw floating point performance of 4.1 TFLOPS : this represents the number of floating point (decimal) operations completed per second. A higher clock does not guarantee better performance by itself, this also depends on the number of shading units and other elements of the pipeline. The core clock is directly related to the performance of a GPU, the higher the clock the more processing can be done per second. Furthermore, it has 2048 stream processors, 128 texture units, and 32 color ROPs. The GPU uses Graphics Core Next architecture, and it is built on 28 nm manufacturing process.
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In terms of clock speed, the Radeon R9 280X GPU core runs at a frequency of 850 MHz and if power and temperature permits, it can boost up to 1000 MHz. AMD Radeon R9 280X desktop Graphics Processing Unit was released in October 2013. If you run out of memory, you will experience poor performance as the GPU needs to swap data in and out of the memory as it is used. More memory is beneficial when gaming a high resolutions as the memory needs to store the framebuffer and all of the game textures. The Radeon R9 280X has 3 GiB of memory with a total memory bandwidth of 281 GB/s. This chip averages a good gaming score at 32% in our GPU benchmark. View Radeon R9 280X pricing and availability on