Radeon R9 280 vs RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 96GB VRAM RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 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 600W)
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 's Advantages
Released 11 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 180% (2617MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (96GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
22272 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
+3667%
126000
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
96GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
384bit
Memory Bus
512bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
188
1792
Shading Units
24064
112
TMUs
752
32
ROPs
192
-
Tensor Cores
752
-
RT Cores
188
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
128 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
502.5 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1968 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
126.0 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
126.0 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.968 TFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
600W
550 W
Suggested PSU
1000 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
GB202
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
92.2 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
750 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
12.0
5.1
Shader Model
6.8