Radeon R9 280 and Radeon RX Vega 3 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon RX Vega 3
Radeon R9 280
5726
Radeon RX Vega 3
1183
Radeon R9 280
Radeon RX Vega 3
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2014
January 2018
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
1200 MHz
Core clock speed
-
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
4,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
192
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
12.13
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
384 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-