NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 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 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 44.16GB/s)

240 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 236W)

Score

GeForce GTX 280

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Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

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

690 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

44.16GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.900 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.900 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

RV570

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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