AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

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AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 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 late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

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

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +764%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

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GeForce GTS 250

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Mar 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

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

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

128

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.23 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.93 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92B

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

G92-428-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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