AMD Radeon RX 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X 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 580X 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

2064 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580X +892%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jun 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

2304

Shading Units

240

144

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

236W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GT200

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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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