AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 168% (2505MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

7936 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB +1357%

48.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Sep 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

2205 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

76

1792

Shading Units

9728

112

TMUs

304

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

320W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 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

AD103

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

379 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

6.6

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