ATI FirePro V7900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

ATI FirePro V7900

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V7900 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1040 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V7900 +198%

1.856 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

FirePro V7900

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Jun 2008

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1280

Shading Units

240

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

1.856 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

236W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GT200

Cayman PRO GL

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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