AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

1776 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +11431%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce 9400 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Aug 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1792

Shading Units

16

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 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 Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G86

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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