AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

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AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 82% (1695MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +963%

35.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 3090 +889%

19888

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Sep 2020

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

82

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

10496

112

TMUs

328

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

328

-

RT Cores

82

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA102

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

350W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-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

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CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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