AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 160M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X +833%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 160M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

VS

GeForce GTS 160M

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Mar 2009

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

896

Shading Units

64

56

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

60W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

G94

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GPU Variant

N10E-GS1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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