AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA B100
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 96GB VRAM B100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Lower TDP (200W vs 1000W)
NVIDIA B100 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 97% (1837MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (96GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (4.10TB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
15104 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3.344 TFLOPS
B100
+1756%
62.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Nov 2024
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Server Blackwell
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1665 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1837 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
96GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM3e
384bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
4.10TB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
132
1792
Shading Units
16896
112
TMUs
528
32
ROPs
24
-
Tensor Cores
528
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
256 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
50 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
44.09 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
969.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
248.3 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
62.08 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
31.04 TFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
1000W
550 W
Suggested PSU
1400 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GB102
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Blackwell
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
104 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
10.1
5.1
Shader Model
N/A
