NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 320MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 320 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 320GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 63.36GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 's Advantages

Lower TDP (143W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280 +172%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

0.228 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Feb 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

320MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

320bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

63.36GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

12

240

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

20

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

80 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.26 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.62 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

228.1 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

236W

TDP

143W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

G80

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

G80-100-K0-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

90 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

1.0

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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