Radeon R9 280X and Radeon X800 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280X vs Radeon X800
Radeon R9 280X
6012
Radeon X800
87
Radeon R9 280X
Radeon X800
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name
Thaiti XTL
R430
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
October 2004
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
160 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
-
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
4.800
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
22.4 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
9.0b (9_2)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-