NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (1725MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

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

4096 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +507%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3070 +580%

13673

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1725 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

-

5888

Shading Units

1792

184

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

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 Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA104-300-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

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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