NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 512MB VRAM FirePro 2270 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (15W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280 +547%

0.622 TFLOPS

FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

0.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

1

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

236W

TDP

15W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DMS-59

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Cedar

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Cedar WS

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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