GeForce GTX 280M and Radeon HD 8670M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 280M vs Radeon HD 8670M
GeForce GTX 280M
592
Radeon HD 8670M
536
GeForce GTX 280M
Radeon HD 8670M
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N10E-GTX
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2009
November 2012
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
MXM-IV
PCIe 3.0 x8
SLI options
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Boost clock speed
-
825 MHz
Core clock speed
585 MHz
775 MHz
CUDA cores
128
-
Floating-point performance
374.5 gflops
633.6 gflops
Gigaflops
562
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
38 billion/sec
19.50
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 950 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
61 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGA
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
Power management
8.0
-