NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs ATI Radeon X1650
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
240 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 200
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1107 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
512bit
Memory Bus
64bit
141.7GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
-
240
Shading Units
-
80
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
19.26 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.540 GPixel/s
48.16 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.540 GTexel/s
-
-
-
622.1 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
77.76 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
236W
TDP
Unknown
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT200
GPU Name
RV516
G200-300-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Ultra-Threaded SE
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
65 nm
Process Size
90 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
0.105 billion
576 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
