NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 280

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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 3090 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 99% (1860MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

8960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +1096%

40 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +999%

22082

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Jan 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

1560 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1860 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1008GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

10752

Shading Units

1792

336

TMUs

112

ROPs

32

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

208.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

625.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

40.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

40.00 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

625.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA102-350-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

200W

850 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 16-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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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