GeForce GTX 780 vs Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1000MHz vs 902MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +1%

4156

Radeon R9 280X

4096

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 780 +19%

2795

Radeon R9 280X

2348

GeForce GTX 780

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

2304

Shading Units

2048

192

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

Tahiti

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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