AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

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AMD Radeon R9 280X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 77% (1770MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (215W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +121%

9.062 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280X

2343

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +330%

10093

Radeon R9 280X

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GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jul 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1605 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

40

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2560

128

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.3 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

283.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.12 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.062 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

283.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU104

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

TU104-410-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

215W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 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

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CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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