AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1904 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +808%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

0.451 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jul 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

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

700 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

2048

Shading Units

144

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.698 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.79 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

451.0 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.58 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

106W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF116

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GF116-200-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

238 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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