Radeon R9 280 and GT215 - video card comparison

Radeon R9 280

GT215

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GT215

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2014

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Bus support

PCIe 3.0

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin

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Boost clock speed

933 MHz

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Floating-point performance

3,344 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

727 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1792

96

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

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Texture fill rate

104.5

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

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Memory bus width

384 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1250 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

240 GB/s

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Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

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Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

-

1.2

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.1

Vulkan

+

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

DDMA audio

+

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

+

-

LiquidVR

1

-

PowerTune

-

-

PureVideo HD

-

VP4

TressFX

1

-

TrueAudio

+

-

UVD

+

-

ZeroCore

-

-