Radeon R9 280 and Radeon Vega 7 - video card comparison
Radeon R9 280
Radeon Vega 7
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Cezanne
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
April 2021
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
1900 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
9,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
448
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
53.20
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
-
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
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.2
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-