AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 77% (1650MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (184W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +114%

7.181 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +299%

8024

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Dec 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

34

1792

Shading Units

2176

112

TMUs

136

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

184W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU106

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

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

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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