NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra 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 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)

112 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280 +60%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1080 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

103.7GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

128

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

96 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

G80

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

G80-450-A3

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

Board Design

236W

TDP

171W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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