NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER vs AMD Radeon R9 280

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5118 points

299% significantly better overall score

1280 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

107 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

31 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

75 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

75 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8739 points

327% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2043 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1407 MHz

70% significantly higher core clock speed

827 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1650 MHz

76% significantly higher boost clock speed

933 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

86% significantly higher memory bandwidth

240 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

42% much lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

105.6 Gigapixels/s

253% significantly higher pixel rate

29.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

224.4 Gigatexels/s

114% significantly higher texture rate

104.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.18 TFLOPS

114% significantly better floating point performance

3.34 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2176

21% slightly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

136

21% slightly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

101st of 601

251st of 601

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER vs Radeon R9 280 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER beats the Radeon R9 280 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER has a much lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280 at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER is faster than the Radeon R9 280.