AMD Radeon R9 380 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

AMD Radeon R9 380 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 380 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 380 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (190W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 380 +458%

3.476 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Jun 2008

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

240

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

108.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

3.476 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.476 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

217.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Antigua

GPU Name

GT200

Antigua PRO (215-0877000)

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

236W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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