AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300 GE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
2040 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X
+20380%
4.096 TFLOPS
GeForce 9300 GE
0.02 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Jun 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
-
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
1
2048
Shading Units
8
128
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.160 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.160 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
20.80 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
Unknown
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G98
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
G98-700-U2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
80 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
