GeForce GTX 280 and Radeon HD 4850 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 280 vs Radeon HD 4850
GeForce GTX 280
1338
Radeon HD 4850
1057
GeForce GTX 280
Radeon HD 4850
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
GPU code name
GT200
RV770
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
June 2008
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
625 MHz
CUDA cores
240
-
Floating-point performance
622.1 gflops
1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
956 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
240
800
Power consumption (TDP)
236 Watt
110 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
48.2 billion/sec
25.00
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1107 MHz
993 MHz
Memory bandwidth
141.7 GB/s
63.55 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVDual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
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