GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTS 450 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 280

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GT200

GF106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

October 2010

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

1x 6-pin

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

602 MHz

790 MHz

CUDA cores

240

-

Floating-point performance

622.1 gflops

455.0 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

106 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

48.2 billion/sec

18.96

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1107 MHz

4000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

141.7 GB/s

96 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

-

+

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

+

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.1

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A