GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon R9 280X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 82% (1815MHz vs 1000MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
+172%
11150
Radeon R9 280X2
4096
Graphics Card
Jul 2019
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 20
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1650 MHz
Base Clock
950 MHz
1815 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1937 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
495.9GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
48
SM Count
-
3072
Shading Units
2048
192
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
384
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
116.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
348.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
22.30 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
11.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
348.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
375W
600 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
Tahiti
TU104-450-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
Turing
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
28 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
5.1