NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

16144 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +13176%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

128

SM Count

30

16384

Shading Units

240

512

TMUs

80

176

ROPs

32

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

72 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

450W

TDP

236W

850 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GT200

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

65 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

1.3

6.8

Shader Model

4.0

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