GeForce GTX 280 and GMA 3600 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 280

GMA 3600

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

PowerVR SGX545 (2008−2010)

GPU code name

GT200

Cedarview

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

October 2008

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCI

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

602 MHz

400 MHz

CUDA cores

240

-

Floating-point performance

622.1 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

32

Power consumption (TDP)

236 Watt

13 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

48.2 billion/sec

1.600

Memory type

GDDR3

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

512 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

1107 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

141.7 GB/s

-

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

10.1

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

ES 2.0

Shader Model

4.0

4.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A