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Radeon R9 280 and Quadro FX 3800 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs Quadro FX 3800

Radeon R9 280
5726
Quadro FX 3800
821

Radeon R9 280

Quadro FX 3800


Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name
Tahiti
GT200B

Market segment
Desktop
Workstation

Release date
March 2014
March 2009

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

Boost clock speed
933 MHz
-

Core clock speed
-
600 MHz

Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
462.3 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm

Number of transistors
4,313 million
1,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
192

Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
108 Watt

Texture fill rate
104.5
38.40

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
1 GB

Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1600 MHz

Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
51.2 GB/s

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

Eyefinity
1
-

HDMI
+
-

DisplayPort support
-
-

DirectX
DirectX® 12
11.1 (10_0)

CUDA
-
1.3

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.1

OpenGL
4.6
3.3

Shader Model
5.1
4.0

Vulkan
+
N/A

AppAcceleration
-
-

CrossFire
1
-

DDMA audio
+
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

HD3D
+
-

LiquidVR
1
-

PowerTune
-
-

TressFX
1
-

TrueAudio
+
-

UVD
+
-

ZeroCore
-
-