Radeon R9 280 and Radeon R7 370 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon R7 370
Radeon R9 280
5725
Radeon R7 370
4656
Radeon R9 280
Radeon R7 370
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Trinidad (Pitcairn)
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
May 2015
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
1 x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
975 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
1,997 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
110 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
62.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
975 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
179.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
+
Number of Eyefinity displays
-
6
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
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
+
-
VCE
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-