NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

3344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (210W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +1594%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 200

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1156 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

512bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

56

240

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Vega 10

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

210W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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