Product Compare
NVIDIA GRID K520Q vs AMD Radeon R9 280X
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jul 2014 | Oct 2013 |
| Generation | GRID | Volcanic Islands |
| Type | Professional | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Base Clock | 850 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1000 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 3GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 384bit |
| Bandwidth | 160.0GB/s | 288.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 1536 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 128 | 128 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per SMX) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 768 KB |
| Compute Units | 32 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 23.84 GPixel/s | 32.00 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 95.36 GTexel/s | 128.0 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.289 TFLOPS | 4.096 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 95.36 GFLOPS | 1024 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GK104 | Tahiti |
| Architecture | Kepler | GCN 1.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 3.54 billion | 4.313 billion |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | 352 mm² |
| GPU Variant | Tahiti XTL(215-0821065) | |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 225W | 250W |
| Suggested PSU | 550 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | No outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | 12 (11_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.1 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 3.0 | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 5.1 |