Radeon R9 280X and VGA Wonder - video card comparison
Radeon R9 280X
VGA Wonder
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Wonder (1986−1992)
GPU code name
Thaiti XTL
18800-1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
February 1990
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
10 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
800 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
-
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
128.0
-
Memory type
GDDR5
DRAM
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
256 KB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
32 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
10 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
40 MB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
N/A
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-