AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 12GB VRAM TITAN X Pascal to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 64% (1531MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.4GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

TITAN X Pascal +228%

10.97 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280

2009

TITAN X Pascal +374%

9531

Radeon R9 280

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TITAN X Pascal

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Aug 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1417 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

480.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

147.0 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

342.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

171.5 GFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.97 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

342.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP102

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

GP102-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

11.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

471 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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