Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Oct 1999
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
SDR
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
1792
Shading Units
-
112
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
Unknown
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
NV10
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
220 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
-