NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

AMD Radeon R9 280X

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

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 148% (2475MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 +611%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 +475%

13502

Radeon R9 280X

2348

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Mar 2024

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 40

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

2048

184

TMUs

128

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

32.00 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

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 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD103-175-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

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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