AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 280X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1792GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2 +886%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

2048

Shading Units

192

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

182W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT200B

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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