AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

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AMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1000MHz vs 876MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX TITAN +14%

4.709 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280X

2348

GeForce GTX TITAN +23%

2900

Radeon R9 280X

VS

GeForce GTX TITAN

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

836 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

876 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2688

128

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.06 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

196.2 GTexel/s

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4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.709 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.570 TFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK110

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GK110-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

561 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

3.5

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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