Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 350W)
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 83% (1710MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
7168 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+816%
30640
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
2009
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+828%
18647
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Jan 2022
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1260 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
912.4GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
70
1792
Shading Units
8960
112
TMUs
280
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
280
-
RT Cores
70
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
478.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
30.64 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.64 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
478.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
350W
550 W
Suggested PSU
750 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
GA102
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GA102-220-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
628 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
6.8