Product Compare
AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Mar 2014 | Sep 2012 |
| 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 | 960 |
| TMUs | 112 | 80 |
| 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 | 20.64 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 104.5 GTexel/s | 82.56 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 3.344 TFLOPS | 1.981 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 836.0 GFLOPS | 82.56 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Tahiti | GK106 |
| GPU Variant | Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330) | GK106-400-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 | 140W |
| 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 | |