NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 151% (2512MHz vs 1000MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5070
+653%
30.87 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280X2
4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 50
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2325 MHz
Base Clock
950 MHz
2512 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
672.0GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
48
SM Count
-
6144
Shading Units
2048
192
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
32
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
201.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
482.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
30.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
30.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
482.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
375W
600 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GB205
GPU Name
Tahiti
GB205-300-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
31.1 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
263 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
1.4
Vulkan
1.2
10.1
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
5.1
