GeForce GT 710 vs Radeon R9 280X

GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710
Radeon R9 280X
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 280X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 710
    100%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    987%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710

231 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 280X .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 280X

Around 887% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 280X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 280X

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 710Radeon R9 280X
GPU NameGK208 ()vsTahiti (Tahiti XTL)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs4,313 million
Shaders192vs2048
Compute Units1vs32
Core clock954 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs16vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 710Radeon R9 280X
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 710Radeon R9 280X
TDP19 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date27 Mar 2014vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 280X
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 280X
    109.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 280X
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 280X
    3482.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 710
    1110
  • Radeon R9 280X
    10960

Points (higher is better)