AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA PG506 242
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Apr 2021
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Tesla
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
930 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1440 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1215 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
24GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
384bit
3072bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
933.1GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
3584
TMUs
128
224
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
24 MB
SM Count
-
56
Tensor Cores
-
224
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
138.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
322.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
10.32 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
5.161 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.32 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA100
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
-
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
54.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
826 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
165W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
8-pin EPS
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
N/A
CUDA
-
8.0