AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 24GB VRAM RTX 4500 Ada Generation 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 210W)
NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 177% (2580MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
5888 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3.344 TFLOPS
RTX 4500 Ada Generation
+1085%
39.63 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
2009
RTX 4500 Ada Generation
+884%
19774
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Aug 2023
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Quadro Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
2070 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
2580 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
60
1792
Shading Units
7680
112
TMUs
240
32
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
240
-
RT Cores
60
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
206.4 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
619.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
39.63 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
39.63 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
619.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
210W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
AD103
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
-
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
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
