AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 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 272.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 146% (2460MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 +268%

15.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280X

2348

GeForce RTX 4060 +352%

10620

Radeon R9 280X

VS

GeForce RTX 4060

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1830 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2125 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

272.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

2048

Shading Units

3072

128

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

118.1 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

236.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.11 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.11 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

236.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

115W

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 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD107

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

AD107-400-A1

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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