NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs ATI FirePro V7800

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 ATI FirePro V7800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V7800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

ATI FirePro V7800 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

1200 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

FirePro V7800 +224%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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FirePro V7800

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

18

240

Shading Units

1440

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.40 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

403.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Cypress

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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