AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon R9 280

AMD 2014-03
G

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

NVIDIA 2018-08

Graphics Card

Release Date
Mar 2014
Aug 2018
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
827 MHz
1395 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
1770 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1750 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
48GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
672.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
4608
TMUs
112
288
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
6 MB
SM Count
-
72
Tensor Cores
-
576
RT Cores
-
72

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
169.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
509.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
16.31 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
509.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
32.62 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
TU102
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
TU102-875-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
18.6 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
754 mm²

Board Design

TDP
200W
260W
Suggested PSU
550 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-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
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
CUDA
-
7.5

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
-
13,586
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
6,871
OctaneBench
-
337
3DMark Speed Way
-
3,121
Blender
-
2,844