Radeon R9 280X and Radeon VE PCI - video card comparison
Radeon R9 280X
Radeon VE PCI
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code name
Thaiti XTL
Rage 6
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
February 2001
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
183 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
180 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
30 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
-
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
0.55
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
32 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
366 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
2.928 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
7.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-