AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Released 14 years late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Oct 1999
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
-
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
SDR
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
-
128
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
Unknown
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
NV10
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
220 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
-
