ION and Radeon R9 280X2 - video card comparison

ION

Radeon R9 280X2

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

C7A-ION

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

-

Interface

PCI

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

3x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1000 MHz

Core clock speed

450 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

282 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

20 Watt

375 Watt

Texture fill rate

3.600

128.0

Memory type

System Shared

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

System Shared

3 GB

Memory bus width

System Shared

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

System Shared

6 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

-

288.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170