GeForce RTX 4090 vs Radeon R9 280X2

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated1
Place by popularitynot in top-1006
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data18.80
Power efficiencyno data15.43
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTahitiAD102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores204816384
Core clock speed950 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)375 Watt450 Watt
Texture fill rate128.01,290
Floating-point processing power4.096 TFLOPS82.58 TFLOPS
ROPs32176
TMUs128512
Tensor Coresno data512
Ray Tracing Coresno data128

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length315 mm304 mm
Width2-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectors3x 8-pin1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount3 GB24 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s1.01 TB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.5 (5.1)6.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.1 (1.2)3.0
Vulkan1.2.1701.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 375 Watt 450 Watt

R9 280X2 has 20% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090, on the other hand, has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 280X2 and GeForce RTX 4090. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R9 280X2
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