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AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
1952 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Lower TDP (49W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X +1422%
4.096 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 730
0.269 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280X +657%
2348
GeForce GT 730
310

Graphics Card

Oct 2013
Release Date
Jun 2014
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 700
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
900 MHz

Memory

3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s

Render Config

32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
2048
Shading Units
96
128
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
268.8 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
22.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W
TDP
49W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti
GPU Name
GF108
Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)
GPU Variant
GF108-400-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
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