Radeon R9 280 vs NVS 310
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 512MB VRAM NVS 310 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 9 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 14.00GB/s)
1744 additional rendering cores
NVS 310 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+3244%
3344
NVS 310
100
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Jun 2012
Volcanic Islands
Generation
NVS
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
875 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
14.00GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
1
1792
Shading Units
48
112
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.046 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.184 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
100.4 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
8.368 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
20W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DisplayPort
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GF119
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GF119-825-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
79 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