NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 330W)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock2435MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

4880 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XTX +3908%

24.93 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon RX 6900 XTX

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 200

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2075 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2435 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

80

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

5120

80

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

80

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

311.7 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

779.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

49.87 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

24.93 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.558 TFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

330W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Navi 21

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XTXH (215-121000247)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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