AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1744 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +2043%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Oct 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

48

112

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G94B

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 2x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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