NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M vs AMD Radeon HD 6850M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M AMD Radeon HD 6850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

672 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M +188%

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

VS

Radeon HD 6850M

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 200M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-IV

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

128

Shading Units

800

64

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.360 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

37.44 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

374.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Granville

N10E-GTX

GPU Variant

Granville PRO

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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