NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 650 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 650

0.812 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +311%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 650

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 600

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

80.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

-

384

Shading Units

1792

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.464 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

33.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

812.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

33.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

Tahiti

GK107-450-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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