NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 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 16.80GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (20W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 +70%

1.059 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2018

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1152 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR4

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

3

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GP108

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GP108-310-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

20W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

6.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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