AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 148% (2475MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 +611%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

GeForce RTX 4070

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

2048

Shading Units

5888

128

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

200W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD104

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

AD104-250-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

295 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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