amd
Brand3GB GDDR5
Memory2048
Cores288 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon R9 280X
nvidia
Brand8GB GDDR6
Memory3072
Cores272 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
AMD Radeon R9 280X
Radeon R9 280X
$299 • Oct 2013
GeForce RTX 4060
$299 • May 2023
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon R9 280X | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 3 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| TDP | 250 W | 115 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1000 MHz | 2460 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 288 GB/s | 272 GB/s |
| Process Size | 28nm | 5nm |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 3072 |
| RT Cores | N/A | 24 |
| TMUs | 128 | 96 |
| ROPs | 32 | 48 |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 2125 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 32 GPixel/s | 118.1 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 288 GTexel/s | 272 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 4.096 GFLOPS | 15.11 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 0.75 MB | 24.00 MB |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 159 mm² |
| Transistors | 4313 Million | 18900 Million |
| Required PSU | 600 W | 300 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 1x 12-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| DirectX | 11.1 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
| 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 280X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon R9 280X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon R9 280X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon R9 280X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
AMD Radeon R9 280X
AMD • 3GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
NVIDIA • 8GB GDDR6
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