GeForce GTX 280 and Radeon X1600 PRO AGP - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 280

Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

R500 (2005−2007)

GPU code name

GT200

RV530

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

October 2007

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

Floppy

SLI options

Core clock speed

602 MHz

500 MHz

CUDA cores

240

Floating-point performance

622.1 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

157 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

Power consumption (TDP)

236 Watt

41 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

48.2 billion/sec

2.000

Memory type

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1107 MHz

780 MHz

Memory bandwidth

141.7 GB/s

12.48 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Multi monitor support

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

2.0

Shader Model

4.0

3.0

Vulkan

N/A