Radeon R9 280X and GeForce GTX 1050 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280X vs GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon R9 280X
6012
GeForce GTX 1050
5198
Radeon R9 280X
GeForce GTX 1050
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Thaiti XTL
N17P-G1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
October 2016
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None
SLI
-
-
SLI options
-
-
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1392 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1290 MHz
CUDA cores
-
640
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
1,862 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
3,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
640
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
97 °C
Texture fill rate
128.0
58.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
7008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
112 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
2.2
DisplayPort support
+
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
Ansel
-
+
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
GameStream
-
+
GPU Boost
-
3.0
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
VR Ready
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-