Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 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 290W)
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 90% (1770MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
4352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB
+550%
21750
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
2009
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB
+640%
14872
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Unknown
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1575 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
48
1792
Shading Units
6144
112
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
169.9 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
339.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
21.75 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
21.75 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
339.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
290W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GA104
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GA104-401-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
392 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
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6