GeForce GTX 280 and Radeon 520 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 280

Radeon 520 OEM

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

GT200

Banks

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

April 2017

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

602 MHz

1030 MHz

CUDA cores

240

-

Floating-point performance

622.1 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

690 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

320

Power consumption (TDP)

236 Watt

50 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

48.2 billion/sec

20.60

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1107 MHz

4.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

141.7 GB/s

36 GB/s

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)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170