AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 98% (1852MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

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

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +325%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

3840

112

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA106

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

12 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

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CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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