NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 155% (2550MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (736.3GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

8192 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +1174%

52.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +1114%

28445

Radeon R9 280X

2343

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 40

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2295 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

2550 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1438 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

736.3GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

80

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

10240

Shading Units

2048

320

TMUs

128

112

ROPs

32

320

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

285.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

816.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

52.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

52.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

816.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD103-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 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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