AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Dec 2018
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1683 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
256.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
—
Shading Units
2048
1920
TMUs
128
120
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
SM Count
—
15
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
107.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
101.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GP104
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
GP104-200-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
150W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
—
6.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
6,078
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.