AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1468MHz vs 933MHz)

Lower TDP (30W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +344%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1010

0.752 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce GT 1010

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1228 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1792

Shading Units

256

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.74 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

23.49 GTexel/s

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

751.6 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.32 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

30W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 2.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP108

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

GP108-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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