NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 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 780 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (933MHz vs 902MHz)

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 +24%

4.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

2304

Shading Units

1792

192

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK110B

GPU Name

Tahiti

GK110-300-B1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

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 Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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