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Radeon R3 Graphics and Radeon R9 280X2 - video card comparison


Radeon R3 Graphics

Radeon R9 280X2


Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name
Beema
Tahiti

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
January 2015
-

Interface
IGP
PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
-
3x 8-pin

Boost clock speed
600 MHz
1000 MHz

Core clock speed
267 MHz
-

Floating-point performance
153.6 gflops
-

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
930 million
4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
2048

Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
375 Watt

Texture fill rate
4.800
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
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)

OpenCL
2.0
2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL
4.6
4.6

Shader Model
6.3
6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.170