NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

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 RTX 3070 +3165%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 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

46

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

240

184

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GT200

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

236W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

8.6

CUDA

1.3

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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