Radeon R9 280 and Radeon R9 270 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon R9 270
Radeon R9 280
5726
Radeon R9 270
4435
Radeon R9 280
Radeon R9 270
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Curacao
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
November 2013
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
925 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
2,368 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
74.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
179.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 12
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
1
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
1
TrueAudio
+
+
UVD
+
+
ZeroCore
-
-