NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 ATI Radeon X1550 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)

240 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 236W)

Score

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon X1550 PCI

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

4.256GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.808 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.808 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

RV516

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

27W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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