Radeon R9 280X and GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 - video card comparison
Radeon R9 280X
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Thaiti XTL
GP108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
March 2018
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1379 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1152 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
1,059 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
384
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
33.10
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
2100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
16.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
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
-
-