AMD Radeon R9 280 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 560v

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 280 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 560v videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 280

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • 5.9x more texture fill rate: 104.5 GTexel / s vs 17.6 GTexel / s
  • 5.6x more pipelines: 1792 vs 320
  • 9.5x better floating-point performance: 3,344 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 1 GB
  • 17.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5557 vs 318
  • Around 82% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 665 vs 366
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 March 2014 vs 5 May 2010
Texture fill rate 104.5 GTexel / s vs 17.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1792 vs 320
Floating-point performance 3,344 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5557 vs 318
PassMark - G2D Mark 665 vs 366

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 560v

  • 13.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 200 Watt
  • Around 28% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 200 Watt
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 280
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 560v

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5557
318
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
665
366
Name AMD Radeon R9 280 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 560v
PassMark - G3D Mark 5557 318
PassMark - G2D Mark 665 366
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 67.829
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1266.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.495
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 79.909
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 365.384
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3337
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3337
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2009

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 280 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 560v

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale
Code name Tahiti M96
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 4 March 2014 5 May 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $279
Place in performance rating 431 429
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 933 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,344 gflops 352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 1792 320
Stream Processors 1792
Texture fill rate 104.5 GTexel / s 17.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt 15 Watt
Transistor count 4,313 million 514 million
Core clock speed 550 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 275 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 10.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 240 GB/s 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)