AMD Radeon R9 280X

amd

Brand

3GB GDDR5

Memory

2048

Cores

288 GB/s

Bandwidth

AMD Radeon R9 280X

$299 Oct 2013 View Details
VS
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB

amd

Brand

16GB GDDR6

Memory

2048

Cores

322.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB

$349 Jun 2025 View Details
AMD Radeon R9 280X

Radeon R9 280X

$299 • Oct 2013

VS

Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB

$349 • Jun 2025

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB
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Specs Comparison

SpecificationAMD Radeon R9 280XAMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB
3 GB16 GB
GDDR5GDDR6
250 W160 W
N/AN/A
1000 MHz3130 MHz
288 GB/s322.3 GB/s
28nm4nm
GCN 1.0RDNA 4.0
20482048
N/A32
128128
3264
384-bit 128-bit
1500 MHz2518 MHz
32 GPixel/s200.3 GPixel/s
288 GTexel/s400.6 GTexel/s
4.096 GFLOPS25.64 GFLOPS
0.75 MB4.00 MB
352 mm²199 mm²
4313 Million29700 Million
600 W450 W
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin1x 8-pin
PCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
11.112.2
N/A1.3
4.64.6
TSMCTSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Background
3DMark

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

2591

AMD Radeon R9 280X

13803 (+433%)

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB

Geekbench Background
Geekbench

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

33752

AMD Radeon R9 280X

107640 (+219%)

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB

GFXBench Background
GFXBench

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

FPS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

135.7 FPS

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB

Passmark Background
Passmark

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

6138

AMD Radeon R9 280X

20158 (+228%)

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB

Game Benchmarks Comparison

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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB Wins!

Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks

0
Wins
Radeon R9 280X
VS
0% vs 100%
4
Wins
Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB
AMD Radeon R9 280X

AMD Radeon R9 280X

AMD • 3GB GDDR5

0
Wins
0%
Win Rate
2591
3DMark
33752
Geekbench
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB

AMD • 16GB GDDR6

4
Wins
100%
Win Rate
13803
3DMark
107640
Geekbench

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2013 3GB GDDR5 $299
VS
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VS
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VS
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