AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (116W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +383%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Mar 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

1026 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

98.50GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1792

Shading Units

192

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.80 GTexel/s

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

116W

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

GF116-400-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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