Radeon R9 280 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition - video card comparison
Radeon R9 280
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
June 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
1050 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
4,301 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
134.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
288 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x 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
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
1
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-