AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 545 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1648 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +567%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 545 OEM

0.501 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce GT 545 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

May 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

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

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

1792

Shading Units

144

112

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.226 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.90 GTexel/s

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

501.4 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

41.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

105W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF116

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

GF116-110-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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