Radeon R9 295X2 and Radeon R9 280 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon R9 280
Radeon R9 295X2
8876
Radeon R9 280
5725
Radeon R9 295X2
Radeon R9 280
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Vesuvius
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
March 2014
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2 x 8-pin
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1018 MHz
933 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 5,733 gflops
3,344 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
179.2
104.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s
240 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
+
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
+
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
1
HD3D
+
+
LiquidVR
1
1
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
1
TrueAudio
-
+
UVD
+
+
ZeroCore
-
-