NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1424 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +530%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

1664

80

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

148W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GM204

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

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

6.4

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