AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA T1000 8 GB

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 8GB VRAM T1000 8 GB 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 160.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA T1000 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1395MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +63%

4.096 TFLOPS

T1000 8 GB

2.5 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

T1000 8 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1395 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

896

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

44.64 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

78.12 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.000 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.500 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.12 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU117

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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