NVIDIA B100 vs AMD Radeon R9 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 96GB VRAM B100 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA B100 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 97% (1837MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (96GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (4.10TB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
15104 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Lower TDP (200W vs 1000W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
B100
+1756%
62.08 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280
3.344 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2024
Release Date
Mar 2014
Server Blackwell
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1665 MHz
Base Clock
827 MHz
1837 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
96GB
Memory Size
3GB
HBM3e
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
384bit
4.10TB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
132
SM Count
-
16896
Shading Units
1792
528
TMUs
112
24
ROPs
32
528
Tensor Cores
-
-
-
-
256 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
50 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
44.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
969.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
248.3 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
62.08 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
31.04 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
1000W
TDP
200W
1400 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GB102
GPU Name
Tahiti
-
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
Blackwell
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
104 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
Unknown
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 (11_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
10.1
CUDA
-
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
