Radeon R9 280 and GeForce GTX 680 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 680
Radeon R9 280
5725
GeForce GTX 680
5721
Radeon R9 280
GeForce GTX 680
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GK104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
March 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
Two 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
1058 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1006 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1536
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
3,090.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
3,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
195 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
128.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2048 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
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
4.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-