AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (1777MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +122%

9.098 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280X

2348

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +166%

6261

Radeon R9 280X

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

2048

Shading Units

2560

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

130W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA106

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

12 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

276 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

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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