Radeon R9 280 and GeForce FX 5500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce FX 5500
Radeon R9 280
5726
GeForce FX 5500
8
Radeon R9 280
GeForce FX 5500
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
Tahiti
NV34 B1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
March 2004
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
270 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
45 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
-
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
104.5
1.080
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
332 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
5.312 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
9.0a
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-