NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 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 2070 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1620MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +82%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2070 +277%

8861

Radeon R9 280X

2348

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

36

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

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

TU106-400A-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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