AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1712 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2 +276%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

GeForce GTX 560

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

May 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

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

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

2048

Shading Units

336

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.34 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

45.36 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

90.72 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF114

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GF114-325-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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