NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 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 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 86% (1733MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps +165%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

352.3GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1792

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP104-410-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

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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