NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon R9 380

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

AMD Radeon R9 380

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 380 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 380 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (190W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380 +458%

3.476 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon R9 380

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 200

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.04 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.476 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.476 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

217.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

190W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Antigua

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Antigua PRO (215-0877000)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

5 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

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

6.3

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