NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs ATI FireGL V3600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

120 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (73W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280 +331%

0.622 TFLOPS

FireGL V3600

0.144 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

FireGL V3600

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

240

Shading Units

120

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

RV630

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

73W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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