NVIDIA RTX A1000 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA RTX A1000

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A1000 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1462MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A1000 +64%

6.737 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

RTX A1000

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Apr 2024

Release Date

Oct 2013

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

727 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1462 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

18

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

2048

72

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

105.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

6.737 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.737 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

105.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

200 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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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