Radeon R9 280X and Radeon R7 260X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280X vs Radeon R7 260X
Radeon R9 280X
6012
Radeon R7 260X
3282
Radeon R9 280X
Radeon R7 260X
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Thaiti XTL
Bonaire
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
October 2013
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
1 x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
1,971 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
896
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
115 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
61.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
104 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.3
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
1
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-