AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

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AMD Radeon R9 280X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1630 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (1785MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +124%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1630

1.828 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280X +11%

2339

GeForce GTX 1630

2102

Radeon R9 280X

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GeForce GTX 1630

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1740 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.56 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

3.656 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU117

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

TU117-150-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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