GeForce GTX 280 and Radeon X1900 XT - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 280

Radeon X1900 XT

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

R500 (2005−2007)

GPU code name

GT200

R580

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

January 2006

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 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

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

384 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

-

Power consumption (TDP)

236 Watt

100 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

48.2 billion/sec

10.00

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1107 MHz

1450 MBps

Memory bandwidth

141.7 GB/s

46.4 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)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

2.1 (full) Shader Model4.03.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A