Radeon R9 280X and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280X vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon R9 280X
6012
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon R9 280X
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Thaiti XTL
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
April 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
N/A
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
160
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
+
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-