GeForce GTX 280 and Radeon R7 250 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 280 vs Radeon R7 250
GeForce GTX 280
1338
Radeon R7 250
1100
GeForce GTX 280
Radeon R7 250
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GT200
Oland XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
October 2013
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
N/A
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
602 MHz
-
CUDA cores
240
-
Floating-point performance
622.1 gflops
716.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
240
384
Power consumption (TDP)
236 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
48.2 billion/sec
25.20
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1107 MHz
1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth
141.7 GB/s
72 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDTVDual Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX® 12
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
-
AppAcceleration
-
+
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-