Radeon R9 280 and GeForce GTX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 590
Radeon R9 280
5725
GeForce GTX 590
3441
Radeon R9 280
GeForce GTX 590
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GF110
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
March 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
Two 8-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
607 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1024
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
2x 1,244.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
365 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
97 °C
Texture fill rate
104.5
77.7 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
Memory bus width
384 Bit
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1707 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
327.7 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
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
-
-