NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

AMD Radeon RX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

784 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 +319%

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 200

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1175 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Polaris 21

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

3 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

123 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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