AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Apr 2021
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Ampere-MW
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
600 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1230 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
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Shading Units
2048
4096
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
4 MB
SM Count
—
32
Tensor Cores
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128
RT Cores
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32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
78.72 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
157.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
10.08 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
157.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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10.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA104
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
70W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
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
6.8
CUDA
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8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.