Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2014 Jul 2022
Generation Volcanic Islands GeForce 30 Mobile
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 827 MHz 622 MHz
Boost Clock 933 MHz 990 MHz
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 6GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 384bit 96bit
Bandwidth 240.0GB/s 144.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 28
Shading Units 1792 2048
TMUs 112 64
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 768 KB 2 MB
SM Count 16
Tensor Cores 64
RT Cores 16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.86 GPixel/s 31.68 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 104.5 GTexel/s 63.36 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.344 TFLOPS 4.055 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 836.0 GFLOPS 63.36 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 4.055 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti GA107
GPU Variant Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Architecture GCN 1.0 Ampere
Foundry TSMC Samsung
Process Size 28 nm 8 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 8.7 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 200 mm²
Board Design
TDP 200W 35W
Suggested PSU 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
Shader Model 5.1 6.7
CUDA 8.6