Radeon R9 280X and GeForce GT 640 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280X vs GeForce GT 640
Radeon R9 280X
6012
GeForce GT 640
1210
Radeon R9 280X
GeForce GT 640
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Thaiti XTL
GK107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
June 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
902 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
692.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
384
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
28.86
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
1782 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
28.51 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
3.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-