Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 80% (1683MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (180W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
+144%
8186
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
2009
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
+240%
6839
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Nov 2017
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1607 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
19
1792
Shading Units
2432
112
TMUs
152
32
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
255.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
127.9 GFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.186 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
255.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
180W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GP104
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GP104-300-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
