AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

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AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 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 10 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (980MHz vs 933MHz)

Lower TDP (170W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +26%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670

2.634 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280 +10%

2009

GeForce GTX 670

1816

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce GTX 670

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

May 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1344

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.44 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

109.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.634 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

109.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK104

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

GK104-325-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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