NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2505MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

9488 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 +7736%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz

Base Clock

-

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

76

SM Count

30

9728

Shading Units

240

304

TMUs

80

112

ROPs

32

304

Tensor Cores

-

76

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

64 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

236W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GT200

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

65 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

379 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

8.9

CUDA

1.3

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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