Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX TITAN
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX TITAN to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 7% (933MHz vs 876MHz)
Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)
GeForce GTX TITAN 's Advantages
More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
GeForce GTX TITAN
+40%
4709
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
2009
GeForce GTX TITAN
+43%
2881
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Feb 2013
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
836 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
876 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
288.4GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
1792
Shading Units
2688
112
TMUs
224
32
ROPs
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
768 KB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
49.06 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
196.2 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.709 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.570 TFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
250W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GK110
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GK110-400-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
7.08 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
561 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.5
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
