GeForce GTX 280 vs GeForce GTX 770

GeForce GTX 280
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 280
GeForce GTX 770
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 May 2013
GeForce GTX 770

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 280
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 770
    402%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 280

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 770

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 302% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 770

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 770

The GeForce GTX 770 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 280GeForce GTX 770
GPU NameGT200 (G200-302-A2)vsGK104 (GK104-425-A2)
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size576 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders240vs1536
Compute Units10vs8
Core clock602 MHzvs1046 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 280GeForce GTX 770
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width512 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1107 MHz
2214 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 280GeForce GTX 770
TDP236 wattsvs230 watts
Release Date16 Jun 2008vs30 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 280
    19.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 770
    33.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 280
    48.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 770
    134.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 280
    142.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 770
    224.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 280
    622.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 770
    3213.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 280
    2780
  • GeForce GTX 770
    11180

Points (higher is better)