NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1032MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (140W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 +218%

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce GTX 660

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Sep 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

960

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

140W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GK106

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GK106-400-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

1.3

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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