NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

2576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +874%

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

2816

Shading Units

240

176

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

236W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

GT200

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

8 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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