NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 +45%

0.907 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce GTX 460

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jul 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

86.40GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

7

240

Shading Units

336

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.450 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

907.2 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

160W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GF104

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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