NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

240 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 236W)

Score

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2006

GeForce 200

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

236W

TDP

30W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

NV43

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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