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NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM TITAN X Pascal and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X 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 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1531MHz vs 1000MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.4GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
TITAN X Pascal +167%
10.97 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280X
4.096 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
TITAN X Pascal +319%
9844
Radeon R9 280X
2348

Graphics Card

Aug 2016
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1417 MHz
Base Clock
850 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz

Memory

12GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
480.4GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
32
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
2048
224
TMUs
128
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
32.00 GPixel/s
342.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
171.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.97 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
342.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W
TDP
250W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI 1x 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 XTL (215-0821065)
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
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