AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 10 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 170% (2520MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (420.2GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB +980%

36.13 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

2355 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

160bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

420.2GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

1792

Shading Units

7168

112

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

56

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

201.6 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

564.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

36.13 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

36.13 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

564.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

220W

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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD104

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

AD104-275-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

294 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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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