GeForce RTX 4060 vs 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
GeForce RTX 4060 Advantages
Released 14 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2460MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
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%
15110
GeForce GTX 280
622
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
1830 MHz
Base Clock
-
2460 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2125 MHz
Memory Clock
1107 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
272.0GB/s
Bandwidth
141.7GB/s
Render Config
24
SM Count
30
3072
Shading Units
240
96
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
32
96
Tensor Cores
-
24
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
24 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
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
Board Design
115W
TDP
236W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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
18.9 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
159 mm²
Die Size
576 mm²
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
