NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal vs AMD Radeon R9 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM TITAN X Pascal and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 64% (1531MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.4GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
TITAN X Pascal
+228%
10.97 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280
3.344 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
TITAN X Pascal
+389%
9844
Radeon R9 280
2009
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1417 MHz
Base Clock
827 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
480.4GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
1792
224
TMUs
112
96
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
147.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
342.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
171.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.97 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
342.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
200W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP102
GPU Name
Tahiti
GP102-400-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
11.8 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
471 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
