GA106 and Radeon R9 280X2 - video card comparison

GA106

Radeon R9 280X2

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

GA106

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Interface

-

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

3x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1000 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

12,000 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

-

375 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

128.0

Memory type

-

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

-

3 GB

Memory bus width

-

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

6 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

-

288.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

-

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

8.6

-

OpenCL

3.0

2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

1.3

1.2.170

NVENC

7th Gen

-

PureVideo HD

VP11

-