NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 580G

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

AMD Radeon RX 580G

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1330MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

2064 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G +885%

6.129 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon RX 580G

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 200

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1330 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/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

42.56 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

191.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.129 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.129 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

383.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Polaris 20

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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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