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Radeon R9 280 and GeForce GT 520 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GT 520

Radeon R9 280
5726
GeForce GT 520
318

Radeon R9 280

GeForce GT 520

Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GF119
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
April 2011
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
810 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
155.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
48
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
29 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
102 °C
Texture fill rate
104.5
6.5 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
1 GB (DDR3)
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
900 MHz (DDR3)
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-