NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 XTX 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 355W)

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock3300MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

5904 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7950 XTX +12938%

81.1 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon RX 7950 XTX

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 200

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2200 MHz

-

Boost Clock

3300 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

96

240

Shading Units

6144

80

TMUs

384

32

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

96

-

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

256 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

633.6 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1267 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

162.2 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

81.10 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.534 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Navi 31

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XTX+

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

355W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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