NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD FirePro S7000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

AMD FirePro S7000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 4GB VRAM FirePro S7000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S7000 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1040 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

FirePro S7000 +290%

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

FirePro S7000

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Pitcairn

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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