NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon VII

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 295W)

AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1750MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

3600 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon VII +2060%

13.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon VII

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 200

Generation

Vega II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1400 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

512bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

60

240

Shading Units

3840

80

TMUs

240

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

112.0 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.88 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.44 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.360 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Vega 20

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

295W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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