AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA Tesla M6

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Tahiti GM204
GPU variant Tahiti XTL (215-0821065) GM204-995-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 Oct 8th, 2013 Aug 30th, 2015
Generation Volcanic Islands Tesla
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 299 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 105 in our database
Predecessor Sea Islands
Successor Pirate Islands

Clocks

Base clock 850 MHz 930 MHz
Boost clock 1000 MHz 1180 MHz
Memory clock 1500 MHz 6 Gbps effective 1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 384 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 160.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2048 1536
TMUs 128 96
ROPs 32 64
Compute units 32
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 768 KB 2 MB
SMM count 12

Performance

Pixel rate 32.00 GPixel/s 75.52 GPixel/s
Texture rate 128.0 GTexel/s 113.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 4.096 TFLOPS 3.625 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 1,024 GFLOPS (1:4) 113.3 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 250 W 100 W
Suggested PSU 600 W 300 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x 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

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