AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 605 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 280X2 NVIDIA GeForce 605 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 605 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 14.35GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 605 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2 +3996%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 605 OEM

0.1 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

GeForce 605 OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

897 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.35GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

48

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.046 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.184 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

100.4 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

8.368 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF119

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GF119-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

25W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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