NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 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 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1808 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +591%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Tahiti

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

352 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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