NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 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 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

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 PhysX Edition +75%

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

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

240

Shading Units

448

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

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

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GT215

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GT215-400-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

144 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

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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