NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB 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 2080 Ti 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (1635MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB +350%

15.07 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1350 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1635 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

72

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

1792

288

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

32

576

Tensor Cores

-

72

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

157.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

470.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

30.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

470.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU102

GPU Name

Tahiti

TU102-350-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.6 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

754 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

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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