HD Graphics 16EU Mobile vs Radeon R9 280

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking360not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.26no data
Power efficiency5.19no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Generation 5.75 (2010)
GPU code nameTahitiIronlake
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date4 March 2014 (10 years ago)10 January 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$279 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores179296
Core clock speedno data133 MHz
Boost clock speed933 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million177 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate104.58.000
Floating-point processing power3.344 TFLOPS0.096 TFLOPS
ROPs322
TMUs11216

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16QPI
Length275 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount3 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth240 GB/sno data

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
LiquidVR+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudio+-
UVD+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1210.1
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.62.1
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 March 2014 10 January 2010
Chip lithography 28 nm 45 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 35 Watt

R9 280 has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 60.7% more advanced lithography process.

HD Graphics 16EU Mobile, on the other hand, has 471.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 280 and HD Graphics 16EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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