AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 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 16.80GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1379MHz vs 933MHz)

Lower TDP (20W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +215%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280 +224%

2009

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

619

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Mar 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1152 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR4

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

1792

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

20W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP108

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

GP108-310-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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