NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

10256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +5620%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1395 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6X

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

82

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

10496

80

TMUs

328

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

328

-

RT Cores

82

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GA102

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

350W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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