NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 280

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti 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 GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (116W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +383%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

192

Shading Units

1792

32

TMUs

112

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Fermi 2.0

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

Board Design

116W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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