GeForce GTX 280 and Radeon HD 4520 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 280

Radeon HD 4520

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

GT200

RV710

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

December 2009

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

602 MHz

600 MHz

CUDA cores

240

-

Floating-point performance

622.1 gflops

96 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

242 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

80

Power consumption (TDP)

236 Watt

25 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

48.2 billion/sec

4.800

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR2

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1107 MHz

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

141.7 GB/s

6.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

-

+

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

10.1 (10_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.1

OpenGL

2.1

3.3

Shader Model

4.0

4.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A