CMP 90HX vs Radeon HD 8280E

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1180not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.05no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameKalindiGA102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date23 April 2013 (11 years ago)28 July 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1286400
Core clock speed450 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1710 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt320 Watt
Texture fill rate3.600342.0
Floating-point processing power0.1152 TFLOPS21.89 TFLOPS
ROPs480
TMUs8200
Tensor Coresno data200
Ray Tracing Coresno data50

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data285 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem SharedGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared10 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared320 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1188 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data760.3 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2013 28 July 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 320 Watt

HD 8280E has 2033.3% lower power consumption.

CMP 90HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8280E and CMP 90HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8280E is a desktop card while CMP 90HX is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8280E
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