NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon HD 7730

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

AMD Radeon HD 7730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 7730 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (47W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280 +1%

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7730

0.614 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon HD 7730

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

38.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

47W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde LE

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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