NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs AMD Radeon R9 280

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (1665MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +384%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +509%

12239

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

4864

Shading Units

1792

152

TMUs

112

80

ROPs

32

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA104-202-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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