Radeon R9 280 vs RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 32GB VRAM RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 's Advantages
Released 11 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 180% (2617MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (896.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
8704 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
+1542%
54940
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Mar 2025
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Blackwell PRO W
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1590 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
2617 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
896.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
82
1792
Shading Units
10496
112
TMUs
328
32
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
328
-
RT Cores
82
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
293.1 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
858.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
54.94 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
54.94 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
858.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
200W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GB203
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
45.6 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
378 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
-
CUDA
10.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.8