NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6 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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AMD Radeon R9 280

Price

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$ 349.99

$ 49.01 slightly less expensive

$ 399.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4831 points

277% significantly better overall score

1280 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

106 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

66 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

74 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

50 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7528 points

268% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2043 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1365 MHz

65% significantly higher core clock speed

827 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1680 MHz

80% significantly higher boost clock speed

933 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

100% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

240 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

56% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

80.64 Gigapixels/s

170% significantly higher pixel rate

29.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.6 Gigatexels/s

92% significantly higher texture rate

104.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

92% significantly better floating point performance

3.34 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

7% slightly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

7% slightly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

106th of 586

244th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

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 vs Radeon R9 280 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 280 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 2060 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 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 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 has a significantly lower TDP at 160 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280 at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 is better than the Radeon R9 280.