NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 505 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

2032 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 505 OEM

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X +9002%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 505 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.356 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

4.712 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

44.86 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Tahiti

GT218-300-B1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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