GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs GeForce GTX 280
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 Ti |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 280 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1080 Ti | | GeForce GTX 280 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP102 (GP102-350-K1-A1) | vs | GT200 (G200-302-A2) |
| Fab Process | 16 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 471 mm² | vs | 576 mm² |
| Transistors | 12,000 million | vs | 1,400 million |
| Shaders | 3584 | vs | 240 |
| Compute Units | 28 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 1480 MHz | vs | 602 MHz |
| ROPs | 88 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 224 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1080 Ti | | GeForce GTX 280 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5X | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 352 bit | vs | 512 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1376 MHz
11008 MHz effective | vs | 1107 MHz
2214 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 11264 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1080 Ti | | GeForce GTX 280 | |
|---|
| TDP | 220 watts | vs | 236 watts |
| Release Date | UNRELEASED | vs | 16 Jun 2008 |
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
130.20 GP/s
GeForce GTX 280
19.30 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
332.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 280
48.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
484.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 280
142.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
10609.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 280
622.10 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better