Radeon R9 280 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon R9 280
5726
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon R9 280
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
April 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
N/A
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
160
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
10.67 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
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-