Radeon R9 280 and Radeon RX 6500M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon RX 6500M
Radeon R9 280
5725
Radeon RX 6500M
8095
Radeon R9 280
Radeon RX 6500M
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
RDNA 2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Navi 24
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2014
January 2022
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
2191 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
6 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
153.6
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
288.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 Ultimate (12_2)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
+
1.2
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-