Quadro NVS 280 PCI vs FirePro D300

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	443	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	4.70	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	Pitcairn	NV34 B1
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)	28 October 2003 (21 year 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	1280	no data
Core clock speed	850 MHz	275 MHz
Number of transistors	2,800 million	45 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	13 Watt
Texture fill rate	68.00	1.100
Floating-point processing power	2.176 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	2
TMUs	80	4

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCI
Length	242 mm	168 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1270 MHz	250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	162.6 GB/s	8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort

1x DMS-59

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	9.0a
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	18 January 2014	28 October 2003
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	13 Watt

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