AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 280X

VS

GeForce2 Ultra

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2000

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

230 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

64MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

7.360GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.000 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

NV15

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GeForce2 Ultra

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Celsius

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

180 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.025 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

88 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

7.0

4.6

OpenGL

1.5

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

-

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