AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1380MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (20W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +480%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

0.706 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1152 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1380 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR4

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

2048

Shading Units

256

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.04 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.08 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

706.6 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

29.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

20W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 2.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP108

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GP108-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

74 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

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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