GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GT 555M 3 GB - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 280

GeForce GT 555M 3 GB

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GT200

GF106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

March 2011

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

None

SLI options

Core clock speed

602 MHz

590 MHz

CUDA cores

240

Floating-point performance

622.1 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

1,170 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

144

Power consumption (TDP)

236 Watt

35 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

48.2 billion/sec

14.16

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1107 MHz

1800 MBps

Memory bandwidth

141.7 GB/s

43.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

Portable Device Dependent

Multi monitor support

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A