NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon R9 280

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NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM RTX 4500 Ada Generation and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 177% (2580MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 4500 Ada Generation +1085%

39.63 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

RTX 4500 Ada Generation

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Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Mar 2014

Quadro Ada

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2070 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

2580 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

432.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

60

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

7680

Shading Units

1792

240

TMUs

112

80

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

206.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

619.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

39.63 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

39.63 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

619.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 2x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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