NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

AMD Radeon R9 280X

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1712 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X +276%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.34 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

45.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

90.72 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF114-325-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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