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Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce RTX 3070

Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce RTX 3070: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

Key Differences

In short — GeForce RTX 3070 outperforms Radeon R9 280 on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both CPUs to compare value. The better performing GeForce RTX 3070 is 2373 days newer than Radeon R9 280.

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 280

  • Consumes up to 9% less energy than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 - 200 vs 220 Watts

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

  • Performs up to 20% better in War Thunder than Radeon R9 280 - 260 vs 216 FPS
  • Up to 167% more VRAM memory than AMD Radeon R9 280 - 8 vs 3 GB
This is a free version of War Thunder.
War Thunder

War Thunder

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Movie

AMD Radeon R9 280 Logo
Radeon R9 280

Desktop • Mar 4th, 2014


FPS

216

83%

Value, £/FPS

Price, £

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Logo
GeForce RTX 3070

Desktop • Sep 1st, 2020


FPS

260

100%

Value, £/FPS

£2.19/FPS

100%

Price, £

£569.54

100%

FPS and Value Winner

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 GAMING OC 8GB V2 LHR Graphics Card

Buy for £569.54 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 2178 minutes ago

TOP 5 Games

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Movie

AMD Radeon R9 280 Logo
Radeon R9 280

Desktop • Mar 4th, 2014

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Logo
GeForce RTX 3070

Desktop • Sep 1st, 2020

Theoretical Performance

AMD Radeon R9 280 Logo
Radeon R9 280

Desktop • Mar 4th, 2014


Pixel Fillrate

29.86 GPixel/s

18%

Texel Fillrate

104.5 GTexel/s

32%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Logo
GeForce RTX 3070

Desktop • Sep 1st, 2020


Pixel Fillrate

165.6 GPixel/s

100%

Texel Fillrate

317.4 GTexel/s

100%

AMD Radeon R9 280 Logo

AMD Radeon R9 280

vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Logo

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Mar 4th, 2014Release Date
Sep 1st, 2020
Volcanic IslandsGenerationGeForce 30
$279
MSRP$499
1x DVI, 2x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortOutputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinPower Connectors1x 12-pin
Desktop
Segment
Desktop
3 GBMemory
8 GB
GDDR5TypeGDDR6
384-bitBus256-bit
240 GB/sBandwidth
448 GB/s
827 MHzBase Clock Speed
1500 MHz
933 MHzBoost Clock Speed
1725 MHz
1250 MHzMemory Clock Speed
1750 MHz

Builds Using Radeon R9 280 or GeForce RTX 3070

War Thunder, 1920 x 1080, Movie

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