NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile 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 5060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 152% (2520MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (507.2GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile +340%

18.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 50 Mobile

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

507.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

282.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

18.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

18.06 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

282.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

Tahiti

GB206

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.313 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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