Radeon 9000 and Radeon R9 280X2 - video card comparison

Radeon 9000

Radeon R9 280X2

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

RV250

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

July 2002

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

3x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Core clock speed

250 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

36 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

28 Watt

375 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.000

128.0

Memory type

DDR

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

3 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

400 MHz

6 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

6.4 GB/s

288.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

DirectX

8.1

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL

1.4

4.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170