GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce GTX 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1725MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)
5648 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (220W vs 236W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070
+3165%
20310
GeForce GTX 280
622
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1107 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
141.7GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
30
5888
Shading Units
240
184
TMUs
80
96
ROPs
32
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.26 GPixel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.16 GTexel/s
20.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
317.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.76 GFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
236W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GT200
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
G200-300-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
65 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
576 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
1.3
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
