Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 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 2 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (170W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+156%
3344
GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2
1306
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Jan 2011
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 500
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
1002 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
128.3GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
1792
Shading Units
384
112
TMUs
64
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
13.60 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
54.40 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1306 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
108.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
170W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GF114
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GF114-400-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
332 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
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1