AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Mar 2025
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
2325 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
2512 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
672.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
—
Shading Units
2048
6144
TMUs
128
192
ROPs
32
80
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
48 MB
SM Count
—
48
Tensor Cores
—
192
RT Cores
—
48
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
201.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
482.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
30.87 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
482.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
30.87 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GB205
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
GB205-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
31.1 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
263 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
250W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
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
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
CUDA
—
12.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
22,544
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
10,789
3DMark Speed Way
—
5,896
Blender
—
6,218
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.