NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 68% (1683MHz vs 1000MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)
AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+57%
6.463 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280X2
4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
950 MHz
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
15
SM Count
-
1920
Shading Units
2048
120
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
375W
450 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Tahiti
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
