Radeon HD 7950 and Radeon R9 280 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7950 vs Radeon R9 280
Radeon HD 7950
4907
Radeon R9 280
5726
Radeon HD 7950
Radeon R9 280
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2012
March 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1250 MHz
933 MHz
Compute units
28
-
Floating-point performance
2,867 gflops
3,344 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
89.60
104.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
240 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
1
Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
-
+
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
1
HD3D
-
+
LiquidVR
-
1
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
-
1
TrueAudio
-
+
UVD
-
+
ZeroCore
+
-