NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (197W vs 236W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280 +61%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Mar 2008

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

128

Shading Units

240

64

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GT200

G92-450-A2

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

197W

TDP

236W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

1.3

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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