AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (933MHz vs 928MHz)

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 Ti +59%

5.345 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce GTX 780 Ti +66%

3355

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce GTX 780 Ti

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

875 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

928 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

2880

112

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.7 GTexel/s

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.345 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK110B

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

GK110-425-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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