NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 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 RTX 4060's Advantages

Released 14 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock 2460MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

2832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 +2329%

15.11 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060

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GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

May 2023

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1830MHz

Base Clock

-

2460MHz

Boost Clock

-

2125MHz

Memory Clock

1107MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

272.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7 GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

240

96

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

96

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

24MB

L2 Cache

256KB

Theoretical Performance

118.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

236.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

15.11 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

236.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GT200

AD107-400-A1

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

65 nm

18,900 million

Transistors

1,400 million

159mm²

Die Size

576mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

236W

300W

Suggested PSU

550W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

1.3

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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