AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2014
Aug 2024
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 40
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
827 MHz
1920 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
2475 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
480.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
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Shading Units
1792
5888
TMUs
112
184
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
36 MB
SM Count
—
46
Tensor Cores
—
184
RT Cores
—
46
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
158.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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29.15 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
AD104
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
AD104-2XX-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
35.8 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
294 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
200W
Suggested PSU
550 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 16-pin
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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8.9
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.