AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 4000 SDI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Radeon R9 280

VS

Quadro FX 4000 SDI

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Apr 2004

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Rankine

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x SDI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

NV41

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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