AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1665MHz vs 1000MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X2
4.096 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+295%
16.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Oct 2022
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
950 MHz
Base Clock
1410 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
38
2048
Shading Units
4864
128
TMUs
152
32
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
375W
TDP
225W
750 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GA104
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
GA104-202-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
