AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon R9 280

AMD 2014-03
G

NVIDIA RTX A6000

NVIDIA 2020-10

Graphics Card

Release Date
Mar 2014
Oct 2020
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Quadro Ampere
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
827 MHz
1410 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
48GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
768.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
10752
TMUs
112
336
ROPs
32
112
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
6 MB
SM Count
-
84
Tensor Cores
-
336
RT Cores
-
84

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
201.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
604.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
38.71 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
604.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
38.71 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
GA102
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
-
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
628 mm²

Board Design

TDP
200W
300W
Suggested PSU
550 W
700 W
Outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
8-pin EPS

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

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
-
17,742
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
9,324
OctaneBench
-
600
3DMark Speed Way
-
4,965
Blender
-
5,387