AMD Radeon R9 280 VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
amd
Brand3GB GDDR5
Memory1792
Cores240 GB/s
BandwidthRadeon R9 280
nvidia
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory1024
Cores112.2 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce GTX 960
AMD Radeon R9 280
Radeon R9 280
$279 • Mar 2014
GeForce GTX 960
$199 • Jan 2015
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon R9 280 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 3 GB | 2 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| TDP | 200 W | 120 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 933 MHz | 1178 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 240 GB/s | 112.2 GB/s |
| Process Size | 28nm | 28nm |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Shading Units | 1792 | 1024 |
| RT Cores | N/A | N/A |
| TMUs | 112 | 64 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 1753 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 29.86 GPixel/s | 37.7 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 240 GTexel/s | 112.2 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 3.344 GFLOPS | 2.413 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 0.75 MB | 1.00 MB |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 228 mm² |
| Transistors | 4313 Million | 2940 Million |
| Required PSU | 550 W | 300 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 1x 6-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 11.1 | 12.1 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
AMD Radeon R9 280
AMD • 3GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
NVIDIA • 2GB GDDR5
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