GeForce GTX 280 and Radeon R7 Graphics - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 280

Radeon R7 Graphics

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

GT200

Spectre

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

January 2014

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

980 MHz

Core clock speed

602 MHz

686 MHz

CUDA cores

240

-

Floating-point performance

622.1 gflops

526.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

2,410 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

512

Power consumption (TDP)

236 Watt

15 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

48.2 billion/sec

31.36

Memory type

GDDR3

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

512 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

1107 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

141.7 GB/s

-

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.0

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131