NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon R9 280 Which One is Better

Graphics Card

Release Date

Jan 2019

Mar 2014

Generation

GeForce 20

Volcanic Islands

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

1365 MHz

827 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

933 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

6GB

3GB

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192bit

384bit

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

240.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count

30

-

Shading Units

1920

1792

TMUs

120

112

ROPs

48

32

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

3 MB

768 KB

Compute Units

-

28

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

29.86 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

TU106

Tahiti

GPU Variant

TU106-200A-KA-A1

Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)

Architecture

Turing

GCN 1.0

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

12 nm

28 nm

Transistors

10.8 billion

4.313 billion

Die Size

445 mm²

352 mm²

Board Design

TDP

160W

200W

Suggested PSU

450 W

550 W

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.02x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C

1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (11_1)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

1.2

CUDA

7.5

-

Shader Model

6.8

5.1

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy

7,572

-

3DMark Time Spy Extreme

3,504

-

Battlefield 5 1080p

110

-

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

24

-

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

54

-

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

81

-

Battlefield 5 2160p

43

-

Battlefield 5 1440p

76

-

GTA 5 2160p

51

-

GTA 5 1440p

66

-

GTA 5 1080p

146

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