RSX-90nm and Radeon R9 280X2 - video card comparison

RSX-90nm

Radeon R9 280X2

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

RSX-90nm

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

3x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

300 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

375 Watt

Texture fill rate

128.0

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

6 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

288.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

DirectX

N/A

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL

ES 1.1

4.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170