NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM 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 112.2GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +295%

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1176 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GM206

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

5.2

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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