AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 231.9GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 82% (1695MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe +29%

4.339 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Apr 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1792

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA107

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

Unknown

352 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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