NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Mar 2025
Oct 2013
Generation
Blackwell PRO W
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1590 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
2617 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1500 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
96GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
384bit
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
288.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
188
-
Shading Units
24064
2048
TMUs
752
128
ROPs
192
32
Tensor Cores
752
-
RT Cores
188
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
128 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
32

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
502.5 GPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
1968.0 GTexel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
126.0 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
126.0 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.968 TFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GB202
Tahiti
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
92.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
750 mm²
352 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)

Board Design

TDP
600W
250W
Suggested PSU
1000 W
600 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
1.2
CUDA
12.0
-
Shader Model
6.9
5.1

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
42,269
-
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
27,891
-
3DMark Speed Way
15,642
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