AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA Quadro M3000M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Tahiti GM204
GPU variant Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330) N16E-Q1-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 4,313 million 5,200 million
Die size 352 mm² 398 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 4th, 2014
Generation Volcanic Islands
Production End-of-life
Launch price 279 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 35 in our database
Predecessor Sea Islands
Successor Pirate Islands

Clocks

Base clock 827 MHz
Boost clock 933 MHz
Memory clock 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective 1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective
GPU clock 1050 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 384 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 240.0 GB/s 160.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1792 1024
TMUs 112 64
ROPs 32 32
Compute units 28
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 768 KB 2 MB
SMM count 8

Performance

Pixel rate 29.86 GPixel/s 33.60 GPixel/s
Texture rate 104.5 GTexel/s 67.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 3.344 TFLOPS 2.150 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 836.0 GFLOPS (1:4) 67.20 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot MXM Module
Length 275 mm 10.8 inches
Width 109 mm 4.3 inches
Height 36 mm 1.4 inches
TDP 200 W 75 W
Suggested PSU 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI2x HDMI1x DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Board number C386

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
Shader model 5.1 6.4
CUDA 5.2

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Aug 18th, 2015
Generation Quadro Mobile (Mx000M)
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16

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