ATI Radeon X550 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

ATI Radeon X550 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT 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 280 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

240 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X550 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Jun 2008

Radeon R300

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

-

Shading Units

240

4

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

1.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

236W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV410

GPU Name

GT200

-

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

R400

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.12 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

156 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0b (9_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

2.0

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

-

Shader Model

4.0

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