AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1410MHz vs 1000MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
3840 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X
4.096 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3070 TiM
+305%
16.6 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Nov 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
915 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
46
2048
Shading Units
5888
128
TMUs
184
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
135.4 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
259.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.60 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.60 TFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
259.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
220W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 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
GA104
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
-
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
