ATI FirePro V8800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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ATI FirePro V8800 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 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 V8800 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1360 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (208W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V8800 +324%

2.64 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

FirePro V8800

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Apr 2010

Release Date

Jun 2008

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

147.2GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

240

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

66.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.640 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

528.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GT200

Cypress XT GL

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

208W

TDP

236W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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