AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200 X2 PCI

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AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA GeForce 6200 X2 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6200 X2 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 3.200GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 280

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GeForce 6200 X2 PCI

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 6 PCI

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

200 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

3.200GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

2

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

560.0 MPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.120 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

NV44

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.075 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

110 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DMS-59

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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