NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D +594%

4.322 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2016

GeForce 200

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/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

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Ellesmere

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

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

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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