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Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 10 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 10GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 10 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 10 GB 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 80% (1683MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (10GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (440.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 10 GB +222%
10770
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
2009
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 10 GB +395%
9955

Graphics Card

Mar 2014
Release Date
Unknown
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz
Base Clock
1582 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1376 MHz

Memory

3GB
Memory Size
10GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
384bit
Memory Bus
320bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
440.3GB/s

Render Config

28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
25
1792
Shading Units
3200
112
TMUs
200
32
ROPs
80
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
0 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
134.6 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
336.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
168.3 GFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.77 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
336.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W
TDP
250W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI 2x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti
GPU Name
GP102
Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GP102-300-KA-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
11.8 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
471 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
6.8
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