AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

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

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

14592 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 +2369%

82.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 4090 +1716%

36499

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce RTX 4090

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

2235 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1.01TB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

128

1792

Shading Units

16384

112

TMUs

512

32

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

512

-

RT Cores

128

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

72 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

443.5 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1290 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

82.58 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

82.58 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1290 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

450W

550 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

1x DVI 2x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD102

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

AD102-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

609 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

6.8

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