NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 AMD FirePro S9300 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 300W)

AMD FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

3856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

FirePro S9300 X2 +1184%

7.987 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

FirePro S9300 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2016

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM

512bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

240

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

249.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

499.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Capsaicin

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.0

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