AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB 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 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 90% (1770MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

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

4352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB +550%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1575 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

1792

Shading Units

6144

112

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

290W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

GA104-401-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

6.6

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