NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Ti and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (1683MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti +99%

8.186 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti +190%

6814

Radeon R9 280X

2348

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Nov 2017

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

19

SM Count

-

2432

Shading Units

2048

152

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

255.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

127.9 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.186 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

255.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP104-300-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

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