AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

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AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 11GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 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 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1545MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (11GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (616.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +302%

13.45 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +626%

14593

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Sep 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1350 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

11GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

352bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

616.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

68

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

4352

112

TMUs

272

32

ROPs

88

-

Tensor Cores

544

-

RT Cores

68

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

0 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

136.0 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.90 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.45 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

420.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU102

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

TU102-300A-K1-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

18.6 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

754 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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