NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

1648 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

0.451 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +641%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

3

SM Count

-

144

Shading Units

1792

24

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.698 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

18.79 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

451.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

37.58 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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