AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce 6800

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Nov 2004

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.900 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

NV41

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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