NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1936 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (184W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +1054%

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2021

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1470 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

34

240

Shading Units

2176

80

TMUs

136

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

184W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

TU106

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

7.5

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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