ATI Radeon 7000 vs GeForce GTX 280M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	1050	1607
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.41	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code name	G92B	RV100
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	3 March 2009 (17 years ago)	19 February 2001 (25 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	128	no data
Core clock speed	585 MHz	183 MHz
Number of transistors	754 million	30 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	23 Watt
Texture fill rate	37.44	0.55
Floating-point processing power	0.3745 TFLOPS	no data
Gigaflops	562	no data
ROPs	16	1
TMUs	64	3
L2 Cache	64 KB	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	large	no data
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	MXM-HE	AGP 4x
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
SLI options	+	-
MXM Type	MXM 3.0 Type-B	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	32 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	Up to 950 MHz	183 MHz
Memory bandwidth	61 GB/s	2.928 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	S/PDIF	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management

8.0

no data

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	7.0
Shader Model	4.0	no data
OpenGL	2.1	1.3
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	3 March 2009	19 February 2001
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	32 MB
Chip lithography	55 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	23 Watt