Radeon R9 280X and GP106 - video card comparison

Radeon R9 280X

GP106

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Thaiti XTL

GP106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2013

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Bus support

PCIe 3.0

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin

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Boost clock speed

1000 MHz

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Floating-point performance

4,096 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

4,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

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Texture fill rate

128.0

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

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Memory bus width

384 Bit

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Memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

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Eyefinity

+

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

+

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

6.1

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

+

1.3

AppAcceleration

+

-

CrossFire

1

-

DDMA audio

+

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

+

-

LiquidVR

1

-

NVENC

-

6th Gen

PowerTune

-

-

PureVideo HD

-

VP8

TressFX

1

-

TrueAudio

+

-

UVD

+

-

ZeroCore

-

-