NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 +109%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

8

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.60 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

54.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GF114

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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