Radeon R9 280 and GeForce GTX 650 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 650
Radeon R9 280
5726
GeForce GTX 650
1801
Radeon R9 280
GeForce GTX 650
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GK107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
September 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
One 6-pin
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
1058 MHz
CUDA cores
-
384
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
812.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
384
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
64 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
33.9 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
5.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
80.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One Mini HDMI
Multi monitor support
-
4 displays
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.3
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
3D Vision
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-