AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1650 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 128.1GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1665MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +37%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1650

2.984 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280X

2348

GeForce GTX 1650 +52%

3590

Radeon R9 280X

VS

GeForce GTX 1650

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1485 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.1GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

2048

Shading Units

896

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

53.28 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.24 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.967 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.984 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

93.24 GFLOPS

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 Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU117

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

TU117-300-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

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

6.6

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