NVIDIA · Tesla (derived from codename prefix) · 2008
GeForce GTX 280
GeForce GTX 280: 1 GB GDDR3, 236 W, 240 CUDA cores. Launched June 16, 2008 at $649.
- Memory
- 1 GB
- Power
- 236 W
- Bus width
- 512 bit
Memory1 GB
109 of 143 in GeForce GTX
Power236 W
24 of 154 by higher draw in GeForce GTX
CUDA cores240
139 of 158 in GeForce GTX
Launch price$649
12 of 92 in GeForce GTX
Current market
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Specifications
Memory
- Capacity
- 1 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR3
- Bus width
- 512 bit
- Memory clock
- 1,107 MHz
- Bandwidth
- 141.7 GB/s
Compute
- CUDA cores
- 240
- SM count
- 30
- TMUs
- 80
- ROPs
- 32
- FP32
- 622.08 GFLOPS
- FP64
- 77.76 GFLOPS
- Pixel fill rate
- 19.26 GP/s
- Texture fill rate
- 48.16 GT/s
Clocks
- Base clock
- 602 MHz
Board
- TDP
- 236 W
- Bus interface
- PCIe 2.0 x16
- External power required
- Yes
- Form factor
- desktop
- Launch MSRP
- 649 USD
Physical
- Architecture
- Tesla (derived from codename prefix)
- Codename
- G200-300-A2
- Process
- 65 nm
- Transistors
- 1.4 billion
- Die size
- 576 mm²
- Series
- GeForce GTX
- Launch date
- June 16, 2008
Not recorded by the source: generation and boost clock.
Die figure
Silicon, made visible
Die area is drawn against the largest recorded die in the catalog. Shader dots use a labeled, card-specific ratio so both early and modern GPUs remain legible.
Catalog context
Within its series, the GeForce GTX 280 ranks 113th of 121 for FP32 throughput and 109th of 143 for memory capacity. Its 236 W TDP is above the 75 W PCIe slot-power ceiling.
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