AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 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 8 GB GA102 's Advantages
Released 9 years 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 8 GB GA102
+431%
21.75 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Oct 2022
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
GA102
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
GA102-150-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
628 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
