Radeon R9 280 vs RTX 6000 Ada
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada 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 300W)
RTX 6000 Ada 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 168% (2505MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (48GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
16384 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
RTX 6000 Ada
+2623%
91060
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
2009
RTX 6000 Ada
+1206%
26240
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Dec 2022
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Quadro Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
915 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
2505 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
960.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
142
1792
Shading Units
18176
112
TMUs
568
32
ROPs
192
-
Tensor Cores
568
-
RT Cores
142
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
481.0 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1423 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
91.06 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
91.06 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1423 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
300W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
AD102
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
AD102
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
76.3 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
609 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
8.9
5.1
Shader Model
6.8
