AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2014
Mar 2016
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
827 MHz
1026 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
1190 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
105.8GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
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Shading Units
1792
768
TMUs
112
48
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
38.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
1.828 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GM206
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
GM206-251-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
75W
Suggested PSU
550 W
250 W
Outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
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5.2
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.