NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

AMD Radeon R9 280X

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

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1665MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +295%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +422%

12265

Radeon R9 280X

2348

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

38

SM Count

-

4864

Shading Units

2048

152

TMUs

128

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

32.00 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA104-202-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

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

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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