NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

2064 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +820%

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Ellesmere

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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