NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD FirePro W600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W600 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 64.00GB/s)

AMD FirePro W600 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

272 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

FirePro W600 +23%

0.768 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

FirePro W600

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 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

128bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

240

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

48.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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