Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (197W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+770%
3344
GeForce 9800 GX2
384
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Mar 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
1792
Shading Units
128
112
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
197W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G92
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0