NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 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 RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1620MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

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

2064 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +1100%

7.465 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

36

SM Count

30

2304

Shading Units

240

144

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

236W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GT200

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Turing

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

65 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

1.3

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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