AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA NVS 1000

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

NVIDIA NVS 1000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 2GB VRAM NVS 1000 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 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 1000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2 +1238%

4.096 TFLOPS

NVS 1000

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

NVS 1000

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

891 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

192

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.188 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.75 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

306.0 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.75 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

35W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK107

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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