AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 760 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 X2 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1072MHz vs 933MHz)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+35%
3.344 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 760 X2
2.47 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Nov 2013
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1006 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1072 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1792
Shading Units
1152
112
TMUs
96
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.73 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
102.9 GTexel/s
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-
-
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.470 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
102.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
250W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GK104
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GK104-225-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
