NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 570

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 AMD Radeon RX 570

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 570 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1244MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

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

1808 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 +719%

5.095 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon RX 570

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 200

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1168 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

240

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.81 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Polaris 20

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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

Board Design

236W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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