AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA P106 090

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA P106 090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 3GB VRAM P106 090 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 192.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA P106 090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1531MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +74%

4.096 TFLOPS

P106 090

2.352 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

P106 090

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jul 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1354 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

73.49 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

73.49 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

36.74 GFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.352 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

73.49 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP106

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GP106-090-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.4 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

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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