AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300 SE 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 SE

0.02 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

GeForce 9300 SE

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

G98S

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

86 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

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