NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada 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 6000 Ada 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 168% (2505MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

16384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 6000 Ada +2623%

91.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Dec 2022

Release Date

Mar 2014

Quadro Ada

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

960.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

142

SM Count

-

18176

Shading Units

1792

568

TMUs

112

192

ROPs

32

568

Tensor Cores

-

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

96 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

481.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

1423 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

91.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

91.06 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

1423 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

200W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD102

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

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

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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