NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1085MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A +271%

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

VS

GeForce GTX 960A

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 200M

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-IV

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1029 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

950 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

128

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

9.360 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

37.44 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

374.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GM107

N10E-GTX

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

5.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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