NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 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 4070 AD103 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 165% (2475MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 +771%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 +572%

13502

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Mar 2024

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 40

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

1792

184

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

36 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

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 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD103-175-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

379 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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