AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (1665MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +384%

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +510%

12265

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Oct 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

38

1792

Shading Units

4864

112

TMUs

152

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

225W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA104

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

GA104-202-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

392 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

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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