GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 280

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GT200

GF114

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

September 2011

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

2x 6-pin

SLI options

Core clock speed

602 MHz

779 MHz

CUDA cores

240

Floating-point performance

622.1 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

1,950 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

336

Power consumption (TDP)

236 Watt

160 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

48.2 billion/sec

43.62

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

1280 MB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1107 MHz

4008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

141.7 GB/s

128.3 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

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A