GeForce GT 710 vs Radeon R9 280

GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710
Radeon R9 280
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2014
Radeon R9 280

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 710
    100%
  • Radeon R9 280
    881%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710

181 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 280 .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 280

Around 781% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 280

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 280

The Radeon R9 280 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 710Radeon R9 280
GPU NameGK208 ()vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO3)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs4,313 million
Shaders192vs1792
Compute Units1vs28
Core clock954 MHzvs827 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs16vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 710Radeon R9 280
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 710Radeon R9 280
TDP19 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date27 Mar 2014vs4 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 280
    29.86 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 280
    104.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 280
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 280
    3344.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 710
    1110
  • Radeon R9 280
    9790

Points (higher is better)