NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 289W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 295

0.596 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +461%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 200

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

46.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

596.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

74.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

289W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

1x DVI 2x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Tahiti

G200-401-B3

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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