NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (1650MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (184W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +75%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +241%

8024

Radeon R9 280X

2348

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

34

SM Count

-

2176

Shading Units

2048

136

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

184W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Tahiti

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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