AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 82% (1815MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +172%

11.15 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jul 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

1650 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1815 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

495.9GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

2048

Shading Units

3072

128

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

116.2 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

348.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

22.30 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.15 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

348.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

250W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU104

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

TU104-450-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

545 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

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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