AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA CMP 30HX

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA CMP 30HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 6GB VRAM CMP 30HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA CMP 30HX 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (1785MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

CMP 30HX +22%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

CMP 30HX

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

22

2048

Shading Units

1408

128

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

125W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU116

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

TU116-100-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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