NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1040 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe +597%

4.339 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 200

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

885 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

10

240

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GA107

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

576 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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