AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440 PCIe x16
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Feb 2006
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Quadro NVS
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1855 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
2495 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
128MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
8.000GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
96
Shading Units
2048
6144
TMUs
128
8
ROPs
32
4
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB per Array
L2 Cache
768 KB
6 MB
RT Cores
—
96
L3 Cache
—
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
1.000 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
2.000 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
61.32 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
1.916 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
122.6 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
NV43
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
NVS440 NPB
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Curie
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
110 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
0.146 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
154 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
31W
Suggested PSU
600 W
200 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DMS-59
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL
4.6
2.0 (full)2.1 (partial)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
3.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.