Radeon R9 280 vs P106 090
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 3GB VRAM P106 090 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 192.2GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
P106 090 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 64% (1531MHz vs 933MHz)
Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+42%
3344
P106 090
2352
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
2009
P106 090
+7%
2158
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Jul 2017
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Mining GPUs
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x1
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1354 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1531 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
1792
Shading Units
768
112
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
73.49 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
73.49 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
36.74 GFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.352 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
73.49 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
75W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GP106
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GP106-090-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
4.4 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
200 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
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.8