AMD Radeon RX 560 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1226MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 XT +606%

4.394 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jun 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1074 MHz

Base Clock

-

1226 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1792

Shading Units

240

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

137.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

4.394 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.394 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

274.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

236W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GT200

Polaris 10 LE1

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

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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