AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 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 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (933MHz vs 888MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +63%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

2.046 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Aug 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

823 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

888 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1152

112

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.31 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

85.25 GTexel/s

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.046 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.25 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK104

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

GK104-200-KD-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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