AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2014
Jan 2019
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 20 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
827 MHz
885 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
1185 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
384.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
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Shading Units
1792
2304
TMUs
112
144
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
4 MB
SM Count
—
36
Tensor Cores
—
288
RT Cores
—
36
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
75.84 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
170.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
5.460 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
170.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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10.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
TU106
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
N18E-G2-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
10.8 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
445 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
90W
Suggested PSU
550 W
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Outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
CUDA
—
7.5
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
6,924
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
3,230
3DMark Speed Way
—
1,410
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.