AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

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AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 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 285W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 180% (2610MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER +1218%

44.1 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER +1111%

24344

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2024

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

2340 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

672.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

66

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

8448

112

TMUs

264

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

264

-

RT Cores

66

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

250.6 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

689.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

44.10 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.10 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

689.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD103

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

AD103-275-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

285W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 16-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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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