AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 133% (2175MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (280.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +699%

26.73 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

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RTX 4000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Aug 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2175 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

160bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

280.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

48

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

6144

112

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

174.0 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

417.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.73 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

26.73 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD104

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

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GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-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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