AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 77% (1770MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +431%

21.75 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280X

2348

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +538%

14994

Radeon R9 280X

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1575 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

2048

Shading Units

6144

128

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

290W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA104

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GA104-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

392 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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