NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

3856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +2007%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

512bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

240

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

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

102.4 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Vega 10

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

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

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 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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