Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 75% (1635MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
+350%
15070
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
2009
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
+627%
14622
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Unknown
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 20
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1350 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1635 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
72
1792
Shading Units
4608
112
TMUs
288
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
576
-
RT Cores
72
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
157.0 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
470.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
30.14 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.07 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
470.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
250W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
TU102
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
TU102-350-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
18.6 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
754 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
7.5
5.1
Shader Model
6.8
