GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon R9 280X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 450 Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 375W)

Radeon R9 280X2 Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450

601

Radeon R9 280X2 +581%

4096

GeForce GTS 450

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL

(215-0821065)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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