GeForce GTX 280M and Quadro RTX A6000 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 280M

Quadro RTX A6000

Architecture

G9x (2007−2010)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N10E-GTX

Ampere

Market segment

Laptop

Workstation

Release date

March 2009

October 2020

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

Interface

MXM-IV

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

8-pin EPS

SLI options

MXM Type

MXM 3.0 Type-B

Boost clock speed

1800 MHz

Core clock speed

585 MHz

1410 MHz

CUDA cores

128

Floating-point performance

374.5 gflops

Gigaflops

562

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

38 billion/sec

625.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

Up to 950 MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

61 GB/s

768.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGA

4x DisplayPort

HDMI

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

Power management

8.0