Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+210%
3344
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
1078
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Unknown
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
700 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
1792
Shading Units
512
112
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.86 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.73 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1078 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
375W
550 W
Suggested PSU
750 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 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GF100
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GF100-ES-DT1-A2
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