Radeon R9 280X and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison
Radeon R9 280X
GeForce GTX 490
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Thaiti XTL
GF100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
-
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
608 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
480
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
365 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
36.48
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
3.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
164.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-