AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1076MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +47%

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280X

2348

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +145%

5754

Radeon R9 280X

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2816

128

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

96

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

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4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GM200

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

601 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

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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