GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce FX 5500 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 280 vs GeForce FX 5500

GeForce GTX 280

1338

GeForce FX 5500

GeForce GTX 280

GeForce FX 5500

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

GT200

NV34 B1

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

March 2004

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

None

SLI options

Core clock speed

602 MHz

270 MHz

CUDA cores

240

Floating-point performance

622.1 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

45 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

Power consumption (TDP)

236 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

48.2 billion/sec

1.080

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

64 MB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1107 MHz

332 MHz

Memory bandwidth

141.7 GB/s

5.312 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Multi monitor support

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

9.0a

CUDA

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

1.5 (2.1)

Shader Model

4.0

Vulkan

N/A