NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 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 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +939%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2018

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5X

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

15

240

Shading Units

1920

80

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GP104

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

6.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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