NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 280
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2022
Mar 2014
Generation
Ampere-MW
Volcanic Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
832 MHz
827 MHz
Boost Clock
1537 MHz
933 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
64bit
384bit
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
-
Shading Units
2048
1792
TMUs
64
112
ROPs
32
32
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.18 GPixel/s
29.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
98.37 GTexel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
6.296 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
6.296 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
98.37 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107S
Tahiti
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
8.7 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
352 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Board Design
TDP
30W
200W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
550 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
-
Shader Model
6.8
5.1