NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)
1680 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 236W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+939%
6.463 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 280
0.622 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1107 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
141.7GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
30
1920
Shading Units
240
120
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.26 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.16 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.76 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
236W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GT200
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
G200-300-A2
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
65 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
576 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
1.3
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
