NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 113% (2130MHz vs 1000MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (70W vs 375W)
AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+192%
12 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280X2
4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2024
Release Date
Unknown
Quadro Ada
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1620 MHz
Base Clock
950 MHz
2130 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
22
SM Count
-
2816
Shading Units
2048
88
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
88
Tensor Cores
-
22
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
12 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
102.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
187.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
12.00 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.00 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
187.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
70W
TDP
375W
250 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD107
GPU Name
Tahiti
-
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
18.9 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
159 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
