NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs AMD Radeon R9 280
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2020
Mar 2014
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Volcanic Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1410 MHz
827 MHz
Boost Clock
1800 MHz
933 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
48GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
84
-
Shading Units
10752
1792
TMUs
336
112
ROPs
112
32
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
6 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
201.6 GPixel/s
29.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
604.8 GTexel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
38.71 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
38.71 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
604.8 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
Tahiti
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
352 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Board Design
TDP
300W
200W
Suggested PSU
700 W
550 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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
6.7
5.1
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
17,742
-
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
9,324
-
OctaneBench
600
-
3DMark Speed Way
4,965
-
Blender
5,387
-