AMD Radeon HD 8280E vs AMD Radeon Sky 900

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8280E and AMD Radeon Sky 900 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 8280E

AMD Radeon Sky 900

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8280E

20x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 300 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 300 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Sky 900

Around 83% higher core clock speed: 825 MHz vs 450 MHz

Core clock speed	825 MHz vs 450 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8280E
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Sky 900

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8280E	AMD Radeon Sky 900
PassMark - G3D Mark	256
PassMark - G2D Mark	81
Geekbench - OpenCL	1210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1654
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1654

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8280E	AMD Radeon Sky 900
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Kalindi	Tahiti
Launch date	23 April 2013	27 March 2013
Place in performance rating	1549	1550
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	1,178 million	4,313 million
Boost clock speed		950 MHz
Floating-point performance		2x 3,405 gflops
Pipelines		3584
Texture fill rate		2x 106.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
Dual-link DVI support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Form factor		Full Height / Full Length
Length		305 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		6 GB
Memory bandwidth		480 GB / s
Memory bus width		2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed		5000 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5