AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 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 285W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 180% (2610MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +1098%

40.09 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +1036%

22832

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

60

1792

Shading Units

7680

112

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

60

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.8 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

626.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

40.09 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.09 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

626.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

285W

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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD104

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

AD104-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

295 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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