
amd
Brand3GB GDDR5
Memory2048
Cores288 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon R9 280X

nvidia
Brand12GB GDDR6X
Memory7168
Cores504.2 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

AMD Radeon R9 280X
Radeon R9 280X
$299 • Oct 2013
GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
$599 • Jan 2024
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

Specs Comparison
Specification | AMD Radeon R9 280X | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER |
---|---|---|
Memory Size | 3 GB | 12 GB |
Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6X |
TDP | 250 W | 220 W |
Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
Boost Clock | 1000 MHz | 2475 MHz |
Memory Bandwidth | 288 GB/s | 504.2 GB/s |
Process Size | 28nm | 5nm |
Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Ada Lovelace |
Shading Units | 2048 | 7168 |
RT Cores | N/A | 56 |
TMUs | 128 | 224 |
ROPs | 32 | 80 |
Memory Bus | 384-bit | 192-bit |
Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1313 MHz |
Pixel Rate | 32 GPixel/s | 198 GPixel/s |
Texture Rate | 288 GTexel/s | 504.2 GTexel/s |
FP32 Performance | 4.096 GFLOPS | 35.48 GFLOPS |
L2 Cache | 0.75 MB | 48.00 MB |
Die Size | 352 mm² | 294 mm² |
Transistors | 4313 Million | 35800 Million |
Required PSU | 600 W | 550 W |
Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 1x 16-pin |
Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
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 4070 SUPER


Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon R9 280X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER


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 4070 SUPER


PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon R9 280X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks

AMD Radeon R9 280X
AMD • 3GB GDDR5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
NVIDIA • 12GB GDDR6X
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