NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs AMD Radeon R9 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA 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)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+771%
29.15 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280
3.344 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce 40
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
827 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
1792
184
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
32
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
36 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
200W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Tahiti
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
294 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
8.9
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
5.1
