NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 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 950 Low Power 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1190MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
528 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 236W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
+193%
1.828 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 280
0.622 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
-
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1107 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
141.7GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
30
768
Shading Units
240
48
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.26 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.16 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.76 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
236W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GT200
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
G200-300-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
576 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.3
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
