NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (1683MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +57%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1920

Shading Units

2048

120

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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