NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 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 5060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 170% (2520MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 Ti +594%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 50

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

1792

144

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.13x 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

GB206

GPU Name

Tahiti

GB206

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

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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