AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

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AMD Radeon R9 280X2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1410MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

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

3840 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM +305%

16.6 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

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GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Nov 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

915 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 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

-

SM Count

46

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

5888

128

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

135.4 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.60 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.60 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

259.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA104

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

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

Board Design

375W

TDP

220W

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 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

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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