AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 620 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 14.37GB/s)

1744 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +2043%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 620 OEM

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

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GeForce GT 620 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Apr 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

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

898 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.37GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

48

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF119

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

30W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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