AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 80% (1683MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 +93%

6.463 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce GTX 1070 +201%

6067

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jun 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

1792

Shading Units

1920

112

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 2x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP104

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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