Radeon R9 280X and GeForce RTX 2060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280X vs GeForce RTX 2060
Radeon R9 280X
6012
GeForce RTX 2060
14573
Radeon R9 280X
GeForce RTX 2060
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Thaiti XTL
Turing TU106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
January 2019
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
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1620 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
10,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1920
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
201.6
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
336.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12
CUDA
-
7.5
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
VR Ready
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-