NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Sep 2014
Unknown
Generation
GeForce 900
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1127 MHz
950 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1500 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
288.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
32

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GM204
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
352 mm²

Board Design

TDP
165W
375W
Suggested PSU
450 W
750 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.4
5.1