Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce GTX 280M SLI - video card comparison
Radeon HD 4870
GeForce GTX 280M SLI
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
RV770
N10E-GTX
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2008
March 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
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Core clock speed
750 MHz
585 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,200.0 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
1508 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
256
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
30.00
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
950 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
10
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.1
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OpenGL
3.3
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Shader Model
4.1
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Vulkan
N/A
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