AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
May 2025
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
2280 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
2497 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
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Shading Units
2048
3840
TMUs
128
120
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
32 MB
SM Count
—
30
Tensor Cores
—
120
RT Cores
—
30
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
119.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
299.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
19.18 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
299.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
19.18 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GB206
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
GB206-250-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
21.9 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
181 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
145W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-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
6.8
CUDA
—
12.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
13,735
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
6,452
3DMark Speed Way
—
3,494
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.