NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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 133.9GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)

208 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (215W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 +75%

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

320bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

448

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GF100

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

215W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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