NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 80% (1680MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 +92%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

30

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

1792

120

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

Tahiti

TU104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

545 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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