NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1792GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X +886%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Dec 2009

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1792MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.9GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

33.15 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

414.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

51.84 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Tahiti

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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