NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock980MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

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

1104 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Ti +323%

2.634 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

980 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

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

1344

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.44 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

109.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.634 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

109.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GK104

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GK104-300-KD-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

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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