NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

AMD Radeon R9 280

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

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 180% (2610MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

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

5888 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 285W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +1098%

40.09 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +1036%

22832

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 40

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

2610 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

60

SM Count

-

7680

Shading Units

1792

240

TMUs

112

80

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

208.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

626.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

40.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

40.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

626.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

285W

TDP

200W

600 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

AD104

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

295 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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