GeForce GTX 280 and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 280

Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

GT200

Broadway-PRO

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

June 2008

January 2010

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

SLI options

Core clock speed

602 MHz

625 MHz

CUDA cores

240

Floating-point performance

622.1 gflops

800.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

1,040 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

800

Power consumption (TDP)

236 Watt

39 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

48.2 billion/sec

20.00

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1107 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

141.7 GB/s

64 GB/s

Shared memory

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)

11.2 (11_0)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.4

Shader Model

4.0

5.0

Vulkan

N/A