Radeon R9 280 and Radeon HD 6970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon HD 6970
Radeon R9 280
5725
Radeon HD 6970
2921
Radeon R9 280
Radeon HD 6970
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Cayman
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
December 2010
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
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
880 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
2,703.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
550 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
84.48
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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
-
-