AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 280X2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (1650MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB +271%

15.21 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

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GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/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

158.4 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

475.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

30.41 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.21 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

475.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU102

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

TU102-350-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

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

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

-

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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