GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon R9 280X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 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 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 71% (1710MHz vs 1000MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (215W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
+145%
10070
Radeon R9 280X2
4096
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 20
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
950 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
46
SM Count
-
2944
Shading Units
2048
184
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
368
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
375W
550 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
TU104-400A-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