NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 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 4070 SUPER 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 148% (2475MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +766%

35.48 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 40

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1980 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

7168

Shading Units

2048

224

TMUs

128

80

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

56

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

198.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

554.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

35.48 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.48 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

554.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD104-350-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

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

Board Design

220W

TDP

375W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 16-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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