AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 128% (2130MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation +258%

12 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Feb 2024

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1620 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2130 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

22

1792

Shading Units

2816

112

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

88

-

RT Cores

22

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.2 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

187.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.00 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.00 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

187.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

70W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD107

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

159 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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