NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 236W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280 +30%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

512bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

30

192

Shading Units

240

64

TMUs

80

28

ROPs

32

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

236W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GT200

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

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

1.3

CUDA

1.3

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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