NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM 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 112.9GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1792GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (182W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280 +49%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2009

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

448bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GT200B

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

182W

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

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

1.3

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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