NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 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 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)
2320 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (180W vs 236W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
+1326%
8.873 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 280
0.622 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
-
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1376 MHz
Memory Clock
1107 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
352.3GB/s
Bandwidth
141.7GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
20
SM Count
30
2560
Shading Units
240
160
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.26 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.16 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.76 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
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
GP104-410-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
