AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 38.02GB/s)
2000 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X
+2744%
4.096 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition
0.144 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Dec 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 100
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
792 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
38.02GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
2048
Shading Units
48
128
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
48 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.200 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
14.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
144.0 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
75W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G94B
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
196 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
