Radeon RX 480 and Radeon R9 280 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon R9 280
Radeon RX 480
8883
Radeon R9 280
5726
Radeon RX 480
Radeon R9 280
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2016
March 2014
Bus support
n/a
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
933 MHz
Compute units
36
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
3,344 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
182.3
104.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
240 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
1
HDMI
2.0
+
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 12
Mantle
n/a
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
+
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
1
FRTC
1
-
HD3D
n/a
+
LiquidVR
1
1
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
1
TrueAudio
n/a
+
UVD
+
+
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
+
-