
Radeon R9 280 and Quadro 6000 SDI - video card comparison
Radeon R9 280
Quadro 6000 SDI
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GF100
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
March 2014
July 2011
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
574 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
1,027.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
448
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
231 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
32.14
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
2988 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
143.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video, 2x SDI
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
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
-
-