AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

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AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (1440MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe +208%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Apr 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA100

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

165W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.1

Shader Model

N/A

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