NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (5GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1040 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +603%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2017

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

160bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GP106

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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