AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Workstation

GPU Specs Compare

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
6.9
CUDA
-
12.0