AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 152% (2520MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 Ti +466%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2025

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

355.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

2048

Shading Units

4608

128

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

170W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GB206

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GB206

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0

4.313 billion

Transistors

Unknown

352 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

10.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

2

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

3

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs AMD Radeon R5 220 OEM

4

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

5

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs AMD FirePro W5100

6

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

7

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs AMD Radeon R7 360E

8

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI

9

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP

10

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

Related News

1

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

2

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

3

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

4

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

5

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

6

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

7

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

8

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

9

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

10

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage