Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2013 Mar 2025
Generation Volcanic Islands Blackwell PRO W
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 850 MHz 1635 MHz
Boost Clock 1000 MHz 2407 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 32GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR7
Memory Bus 384bit 256bit
Bandwidth 288.0GB/s 896.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32
Shading Units 2048 10496
TMUs 128 328
ROPs 32 112
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 768 KB 64 MB
SM Count 82
Tensor Cores 328
RT Cores 82
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 32.00 GPixel/s 269.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 128.0 GTexel/s 789.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.096 TFLOPS 50.53 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 1024 GFLOPS 789.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 50.53 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti GB203
GPU Variant Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
Architecture GCN 1.0 Blackwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 5 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 45.6 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 378 mm²
Board Design
TDP 250W 200W
Suggested PSU 600 W 550 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 4x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 16-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