NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

5648 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM +2568%

16.6 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Nov 2022

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

5888

80

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

135.4 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.60 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.60 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

259.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GA104

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

220W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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