ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 's Advantages

80 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 236W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280 +61%

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

Release Date

Jun 2008

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

320

Shading Units

240

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

236W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GT200

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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