Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1188MHz vs 933MHz)
Lower TDP (90W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+83%
3344
GeForce GTX 950
1825
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
+5%
2009
GeForce GTX 950
1903
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Aug 2015
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1024 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1188 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
105.8GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
1792
Shading Units
768
112
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.02 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
57.02 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.825 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.02 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
90W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GM206
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GM206-250-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
228 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
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
