Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 165% (2475MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+771%
29150
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Aug 2024
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1920 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
46
1792
Shading Units
5888
112
TMUs
184
32
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
36 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
200W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 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 16-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
AD104
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
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
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
-
CUDA
8.9
5.1
Shader Model
6.8