AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM 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 80.19GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +429%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

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

1253 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.19 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.6 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

65W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK106

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB

2

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs ATI Radeon HD 4250

3

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

4

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

5

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

6

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT

7

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs ATI Radeon HD 4570 Rebrand

8

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

9

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

10

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early