NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs ATI FirePro V8800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

ATI FirePro V8800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V8800 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1360 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (208W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

FirePro V8800 +324%

2.64 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

FirePro V8800

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

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

1600

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

66.00 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.640 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

528.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

208W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Cypress

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress XT 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

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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