Radeon R9 280X and GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280X vs GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
Radeon R9 280X
6012
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
7043
Radeon R9 280X
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Thaiti XTL
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
January 2022
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1740 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
8,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
90 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
111.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
192.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
+
1.3
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-