AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA L40S
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2014
Oct 2022
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Server Ada
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
827 MHz
1065 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
2520 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
48GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
864.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
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Shading Units
1792
18176
TMUs
112
568
ROPs
32
192
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
48 MB
SM Count
—
142
Tensor Cores
—
568
RT Cores
—
142
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
483.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
1431.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
91.61 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
1431.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
91.61 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
AD102
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
AD102-896-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
76.3 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
609 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
350W
Suggested PSU
550 W
750 W
Outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
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
—
8.9
Benchmark
Blender
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9,239
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.