Radeon 680M vs R9 280X2

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	333
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	22.13
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code name	Tahiti	Rembrandt+
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	no data (2024 years ago)	3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores	2048	768
Core clock speed	950 MHz	2000 MHz
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	2200 MHz
Number of transistors	4,313 million	13,100 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	375 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	128.0	105.6
Floating-point processing power	4.096 TFLOPS	3.379 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	128	48
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	12

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	315 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	3x 8-pin	None

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 type	GDDR5	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	384 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	-

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 Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5 (5.1)	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.1 (1.2)	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.170	1.3

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography	28 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	375 Watt	50 Watt

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