Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2014 Apr 2025
Generation Volcanic Islands GeForce 50
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 827 MHz 2407 MHz
Boost Clock 933 MHz 2572 MHz
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR7
Memory Bus 384bit 128bit
Bandwidth 240.0GB/s 448.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 28
Shading Units 1792 4608
TMUs 112 144
ROPs 32 48
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 768 KB 32 MB
SM Count 36
Tensor Cores 144
RT Cores 36
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.86 GPixel/s 123.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 104.5 GTexel/s 370.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.344 TFLOPS 23.70 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 836.0 GFLOPS 370.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 23.70 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti GB206
GPU Variant Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330) GB206-300-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Blackwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 5 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 21.9 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 181 mm²
Board Design
TDP 200W 180W
Suggested PSU 550 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.4
Shader Model 5.1 6.8
CUDA 12.0