NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 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 4060 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 164% (2460MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 +351%

15.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4060 +428%

10620

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 4060

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

May 2023

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 40

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1830 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

2460 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

2125 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

272.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

24

SM Count

-

3072

Shading Units

1792

96

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

96

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

118.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

236.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

15.11 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

236.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

200W

300 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

AD107

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD107-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

159 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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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