AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 280X2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 74% (1740MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (90W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +73%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA107

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

90W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-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

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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