AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000H
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16GB VRAM RTX A4000H to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A4000H 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 67% (1560MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
4352 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (140W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3.344 TFLOPS
RTX A4000H
+473%
19.17 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Apr 2021
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
735 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1560 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
48
1792
Shading Units
6144
112
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
149.8 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
299.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
19.17 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.17 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
299.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
140W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GA104
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GA104-???-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
392 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
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
