AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA NVS 300

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X NVIDIA NVS 300

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 512MB VRAM NVS 300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

2032 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 300 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +10402%

4.096 TFLOPS

NVS 300

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVS 300

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

790 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.64GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

16

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.080 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.160 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

39.36 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT218

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GT218-670-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

18W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DMS-59

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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