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Radeon R9 280 and Radeon HD 6570 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon HD 6570

Radeon R9 280
5726
Radeon HD 6570
572

Radeon R9 280

Radeon HD 6570


Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name
Tahiti
Turks

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
March 2014
April 2011

Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 2.1 x16

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None

Boost clock speed
933 MHz
650 MHz

Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
624.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm

Number of transistors
4,313 million
716 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
480

Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
40 Watt

Texture fill rate
104.5
15.60

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
900 MHz

Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
28.8 GB/s

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

Eyefinity
1
1

HDMI
+
+

DisplayPort support
-
+

DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 11

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.2

OpenGL
4.6
4.4

Shader Model
5.1
5.0

Vulkan
+
-

AppAcceleration
-
-

CrossFire
1
1

DDMA audio
+
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

HD3D
+
-

LiquidVR
1
-

PowerTune
-
-

TressFX
1
-

TrueAudio
+
-

UVD
+
+

ZeroCore
-
-