AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA TITAN RTX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 24GB VRAM TITAN RTX 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 280W)

NVIDIA TITAN RTX 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

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

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

TITAN RTX +298%

16.31 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280X

2339

TITAN RTX +547%

15148

Radeon R9 280X

VS

TITAN RTX

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1350 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

672.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

72

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

4608

128

TMUs

288

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

576

-

RT Cores

72

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

509.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

32.62 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.31 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

509.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU102

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

TU102-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

18.6 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

754 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

280W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

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CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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