NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 +154%

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GF110

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GF110-380-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

3 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

244W

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 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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