AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1058MHz vs 1000MHz)
Lower TDP (195W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X
+26%
4.096 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680
3.25 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280X
+17%
2348
GeForce GTX 680
2004
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Mar 2012
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
1006 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1058 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
1536
128
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
195W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x 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 Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GK104
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
GK104-400-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
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
