NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 Full Specs

Summary

240 Shaders 602MHz	3,584 Shaders 2.52GHz
1GB GDDR3141.7GB/s	16GB GDDR6640GB/s
Peak·FP32·FP16 622.1 GFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 36.13 TFLOPS
Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP 236W	TDP 220W
Power Connectors - 2x 6-Pin	Power Connectors 2x 8-Pin -

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 Tensor FP8-16 FP8-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP8-32 FP8-32 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-16 FP16-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-32 FP16-32 Tensor Sparse FP64 BF16 Tensor BF16 BF16 Tensor Sparse Tensor INT8 Tensor INT4 Memory Bandwidth TDP

GeForce GTX 280622.1 GFLOPSFP32

x1

Radeon RX 90701.16 POPSINT4 Tensor Sparse

x1858.37

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed602MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed2520MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 622.1 GFLOPSFP32	Peak OPS 1.16 POPSINT4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP8-16 144.5 TFLOPS FP8-16 Tensor Sparse 289 TFLOPS Tensor FP8-32 144.5 TFLOPS FP8-32 Tensor Sparse 289 TFLOPS
-	Tensor FP16-16 72.25 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 144.5 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 72.25 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 144.5 TFLOPS
-	BF16 72.25 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 72.25 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 144.5 TFLOPS
FP32 622.1 GFLOPS	FP32 36.13 TFLOPS
FP64 77.76 GFLOPS	FP64 1.13 TFLOPS
Tensor INT4 -	Tensor INT4 578 TOPS
-	Tensor INT8 289 TOPS
Pixel Rate 41.5 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 322.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 103.7 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 564.5 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 240 Shaders	Shaders 3,584 Shaders
TMUs 80 TMUs	TMUs 224 TMUs
ROPs 32 ROPs	ROPs 128 ROPs
Tensor Cores -	Tensor Cores 112 T-Cores
RT Cores -	RT Cores 56 RT-Cores
SMs 30 SMs	CUs 56 CUs

Clocks

Base Clock -	Base Clock 2.21GHz
Boost Clock 602MHz	Boost Clock 2.52GHz
Shader Clock 1.3GHz	Shader Clock -

Cache

L2 Cache 256KB shared	L2 Cache 8.2MB shared
L3 Cache -	L3 Cache 64MB shared
L3 Bandwidth -	L3 Bandwidth 2.25TB/s

Memory

1GB GDDR3	16GB GDDR6
Memory Bus 512-bit	Memory Bus 256-bit
Memory Speed 2.2GT/s	Memory Speed 20GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 141.7GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 640GB/s

Power & Thermals

TDP 236W

TDP 220W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 2	Multi-Monitor 3
HDCP -	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Ports

-	3x DisplayPort 2.1
-	1x HDMI 2.1
2x DVI-I Dual-Link	-
1x S-Video	-

Encoder

-	Encoder Model VCN 4.0

Decoder

Decoder Model VP2

Decoder Model VCN 4.0

Card

Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
PCIe 2-Slots	PCIe 2.5-Slots
Height 111 mm (4.37") Width 267 mm (10.51") Depth 38 mm (1.5")	Height 111 mm (4.37") Width 267 mm (10.51") Depth 50 mm (1.97")
Cooling Blower 1x Fan	Cooling Open-Air 3x Fans
Power Connectors 2x 6-Pin	Power Connectors 2x 8-Pin

Chip

Manufacturer NVIDIA	Manufacturer AMD
Chip Designer NVIDIA	Chip Designer AMD
Architecture Tesla 2	Architecture RDNA 4
Family GeForce 200	Family Radeon RX 9000
Branding	Branding
Codename NVA0	Codename -
Chip Variant GT200-100-A2	Chip Variant Navi 48 XL
Market Segment Desktop	Market Segment Desktop
Release Date Jun 17, 2008	Release Date Jan 6, 2025

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node 65nm	Fabrication Node N4P
Die Size 576mm²	Die Size 357mm²
Transistor Count 1.4 Billion	Transistor Count 53.9 Billion
Transistor Density 2.43 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 151.2 MTr/mm²

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