GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh and Radeon R9 280X2 - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh
Radeon R9 280X2
Architecture
Turing (2018−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
TU106B
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2020
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
3x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1125 MHz
1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
10,800 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
375 Watt
Texture fill rate
162.0
128.0
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
11 GB/s
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
352.0 GB/s
288.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
7.5
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1 (1.2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.170