Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 1630
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1630 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1630 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 91% (1785MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+82%
3344
GeForce GTX 1630
1828
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
2009
GeForce GTX 1630
+4%
2100
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Jun 2022
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 16
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1740 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1785 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
1792
Shading Units
512
112
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.56 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
57.12 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
3.656 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.828 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.12 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
75W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
TU117
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
TU117-150-KA-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
4.7 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
7.5
5.1
Shader Model
6.8