
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
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Interface
IGP
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
3x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
600 MHz
1000 MHz
Core clock speed
267 MHz
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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