AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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AMD Radeon R9 Nano NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

3856 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 Nano +1217%

8.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jun 2008

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR3

4096bit

Memory Bus

512bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

240

256

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

GT200

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

236W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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