NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 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 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (1680MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

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

Lower TDP (160W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +57%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 +218%

7483

Radeon R9 280X

2348

GeForce RTX 2060

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

30

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

2048

120

TMUs

128

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

32.00 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

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

TU106-200A-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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