AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

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AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

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

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 Ti +594%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2025

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

355.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

1792

Shading Units

4608

112

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

GB206

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

GB206

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0

4.313 billion

Transistors

Unknown

352 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

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CUDA

10.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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