AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Mar 2014
Mar 2013
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 600
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
827 MHz
980 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
1032 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1502 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
144.2GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
768
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
32
24
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
768 KB
384 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
16.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
66.05 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
1.585 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
66.05 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
GK106
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
GK106-240-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
2.54 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
221 mm²

Board Design

TDP
200W
134W
Suggested PSU
550 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
CUDA
-
3.0