NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

2064 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +568%

4.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

2304

Shading Units

240

192

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

236W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

GT200

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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