AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon HD 6230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
1968 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon HD 6230 's Advantages
Lower TDP (19W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X
+3838%
4.096 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6230
0.104 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Jul 2011
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
-
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
667 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
10.67GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
2
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
80
128
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.600 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.0 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
19W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Park
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
Park S3 LP
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
59 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
