NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon HD 6930

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

AMD Radeon HD 6930

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1040 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (186W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930 +208%

1.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon HD 6930

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.00 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

60.00 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.920 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

480.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

186W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Cayman

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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