AMD Radeon R9 280X VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
amd
Brand3GB GDDR5
Memory2048
Cores288 GB/s
BandwidthRadeon R9 280X
nvidia
Brand16GB GDDR6X
Memory10240
Cores736.3 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
AMD Radeon R9 280X
Radeon R9 280X
$299 • Oct 2013
GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
$999 • Jan 2024
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon R9 280X | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 3 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6X |
| TDP | 250 W | 320 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1000 MHz | 2550 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 288 GB/s | 736.3 GB/s |
| Process Size | 28nm | 5nm |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 10240 |
| RT Cores | N/A | 80 |
| TMUs | 128 | 320 |
| ROPs | 32 | 112 |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1438 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 32 GPixel/s | 285.6 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 288 GTexel/s | 736.3 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 4.096 GFLOPS | 52.22 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 0.75 MB | 64.00 MB |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 379 mm² |
| Transistors | 4313 Million | 45900 Million |
| Required PSU | 600 W | 700 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 4080 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 4080 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 4080 SUPER
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon R9 280X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
AMD Radeon R9 280X
AMD • 3GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
NVIDIA • 16GB GDDR6X
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