GeForce RTX 4080 vs GeForce GTX 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock2505MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)
9488 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages
Lower TDP (236W vs 320W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4080
+7736%
48740
GeForce GTX 280
622
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2205 MHz
Base Clock
-
2505 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1107 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
716.8GB/s
Bandwidth
141.7GB/s
Render Config
76
SM Count
30
9728
Shading Units
240
304
TMUs
80
112
ROPs
32
304
Tensor Cores
-
76
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
64 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
280.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.26 GPixel/s
761.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.16 GTexel/s
48.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
48.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
761.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.76 GFLOPS
Board Design
320W
TDP
236W
700 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD103
GPU Name
GT200
AD103-300-A1
GPU Variant
G200-300-A2
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
65 nm
45.9 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
379 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
8.9
CUDA
1.3
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
