NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 146% (2460MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 272.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 +268%

15.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

May 2023

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 40

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1830 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

2460 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2125 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

272.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

3072

Shading Units

2048

96

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

96

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

118.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

236.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

15.11 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

236.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD107-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

159 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

3x 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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