Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+168%
3344
GeForce GTX 590
1244
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Mar 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
854 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/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
19.46 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1244 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
365W
550 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GF110
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GF110-351-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
3 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
520 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