NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 SE and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 91.87GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560 SE

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2 +383%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 SE

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Feb 2012

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

957 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

91.87GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

6

SM Count

-

288

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

24

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.832 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

35.33 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

847.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

70.66 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF114-200-KB-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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