AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 128.1GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (1665MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +12%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1650

2.984 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce GTX 1650 +78%

3590

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce GTX 1650

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Apr 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1485 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.1GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

1792

Shading Units

896

112

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

53.28 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.24 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.967 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.984 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

93.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU117

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

TU117-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

200 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

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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