NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GT200 GF116
GPU variant G200-300-A2 N12E-GS-A1
Architecture Tesla 2.0 Fermi 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 1,400 million 1,170 million
Die size 576 mm² 238 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jun 16th, 2008
Generation GeForce 200
Production End-of-life
Launch price 649 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 59 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 9
Successor GeForce 400

Clocks

GPU clock 602 MHz 775 MHz
Shader clock 1296 MHz 1550 MHz
Memory clock 1107 MHz 2.2 Gbps effective 625 MHz 2.5 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 1536 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR5
Memory bus width 512 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 141.7 GB/s 60.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 240 192
TMUs 80 32
ROPs 32 24
SM count 30 4
Cache L2 256 KB 384 KB
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM)

Performance

Pixel rate 19.26 GPixel/s 6.200 GPixel/s
Texture rate 48.16 GTexel/s 24.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 622.1 GFLOPS 595.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 77.76 GFLOPS (1:8) 49.60 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot MXM Module
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches
TDP 236 W 75 W
Suggested PSU 550 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Board number P651 E1069, P1065

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 3.3 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.3 2.1
Shader model 4.0 5.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date May 30th, 2011
Generation GeForce 500M
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-B (3.0)
Predecessor GeForce 400M
Successor GeForce 600M

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