NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 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 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 83% (1710MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +201%

10.07 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2080 +444%

10946

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

46

SM Count

-

2944

Shading Units

1792

184

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

Tahiti

TU104-400A-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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