AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 205 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
2032 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (31W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X
+9002%
4.096 TFLOPS
GeForce 205 OEM
0.045 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Nov 2009
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 200
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
400 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
2048
Shading Units
16
128
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.356 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.712 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.86 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
31W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GT218
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
GT218-200-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
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
