Radeon R9 280 and Radeon HD 6670 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon HD 6670
Radeon R9 280
5726
Radeon HD 6670
752
Radeon R9 280
Radeon HD 6670
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 2.0 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
800 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
768.0 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
66 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
19.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
64 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
-
-