Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 465
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 465 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 102.7GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+291%
3344
GeForce GTX 465
855
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
May 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 400
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
802 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
102.7GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
11
1792
Shading Units
352
112
TMUs
44
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.38 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.75 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
855.4 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
106.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
200W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GF100
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GF100-030-A3
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1