Radeon R9 280X2 and GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q - video card comparison

Radeon R9 280X2

GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GN20-E5 GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

3x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1000 MHz

1290 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

5120

Power consumption (TDP)

375 Watt

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

128.0

237.4

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6 GB/s

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

288.0 GB/s

320.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.2