AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 280X NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 640 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +569%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640 OEM

0.612 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

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GeForce GT 640 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

891 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.376 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

612.1 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

25.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK107

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GK107-320-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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