Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 960 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1201MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+35%
3344
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
2460
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Nov 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
1176 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1201 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
1792
Shading Units
1024
112
TMUs
64
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
38.43 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
76.86 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.460 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
76.86 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
Unknown
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GM206
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GTX 960 OEM
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
6.7