AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

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AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 164% (2460MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 +351%

15.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 4060 +428%

10626

Radeon R9 280

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GeForce RTX 4060

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

May 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1830 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2125 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

272.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

24

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

3072

112

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

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Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

118.1 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

236.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.11 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.11 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

236.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD107

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

AD107-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

159 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

115W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

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CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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