NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

VS

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

VS

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

-

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

-

240

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

12

-

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

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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 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

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA NVS 510

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM

Related News

1

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

2

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

3

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

4

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

5

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

6

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

7

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

8

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

9

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

10

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU