AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

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AMD Radeon R9 280X NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1000MHz vs 980MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK +37%

5.645 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

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GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

889 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2880

128

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

58.80 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

235.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.645 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.882 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK110B

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GK110-430-B1

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

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 Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

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CUDA

3.5

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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