NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce2 Ultra

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2000

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 2

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 4x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

230 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

64MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

7.360GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

2.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

375W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x VGA

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV15

GPU Name

Tahiti

GeForce2 Ultra

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Celsius

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

180 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.025 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

88 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

7.0

DirectX

12 (11_1)

1.5

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

Shader Model

5.1

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