NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon R9 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1380MHz vs 933MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 200W)
AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
0.706 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280
+373%
3.344 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
543
Radeon R9 280
+269%
2009
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
827 MHz
1380 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
2
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
1792
16
TMUs
112
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.04 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
22.08 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
706.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
29.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
200W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Tahiti
GP108-200-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
74 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
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
