Radeon R9 280 and GeForce 840M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce 840M
Radeon R9 280
5726
GeForce 840M
1121
Radeon R9 280
GeForce 840M
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Tahiti
N15S-GT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2014
March 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1029 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
863.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
384
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
17.98
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
16.02 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
GameWorks
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-