AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 RX 560 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

784 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 236W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 +319%

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

-

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

240

64

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

GT200

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

236W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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