amd
Brand3GB GDDR5
Memory1792
Cores240 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon R9 280
nvidia
Brand32GB GDDR7
Memory21760
Cores1790 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
AMD Radeon R9 280
Radeon R9 280
$279 • Mar 2014
GeForce RTX 5090
$1999 • Jan 2025
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon R9 280 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 3 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR7 |
| TDP | 200 W | 575 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 933 MHz | 2407 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 240 GB/s | 1790 GB/s |
| Process Size | 28nm | 5nm |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Blackwell 2.0 |
| Shading Units | 1792 | 21760 |
| RT Cores | N/A | 170 |
| TMUs | 112 | 680 |
| ROPs | 32 | 176 |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 512-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 29.86 GPixel/s | 423.6 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 240 GTexel/s | 1636.8 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 3.344 GFLOPS | 104.8 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 0.75 MB | 96.00 MB |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 750 mm² |
| Transistors | 4313 Million | 92200 Million |
| Required PSU | 550 W | 950 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 1x 16-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 11.1 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
AMD Radeon R9 280
AMD • 3GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
NVIDIA • 32GB GDDR7
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