GeForce GTX 280: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce GTX 280 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.33% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 280 sales 16 June 2008 at a recommended price of $649 . This is a Tesla 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.11 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 141.7 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 236 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 280: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking738
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.12
Power efficiency0.97of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGT200
Market segmentDesktop
Release date16 June 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$649 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 280's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 280's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores240of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed602 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors1,400 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology65 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)236 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Maximum GPU temperature105 °C
Texture fill rate48.16of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.6221 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs80of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 280 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mm
Height4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 280: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width512 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1107 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth141.7 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 280. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsHDTVDual Link DVI
Multi monitor support+
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536
Audio input for HDMIS/PDIF

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 280, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 280. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 280 3.33

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GTX 280 1285

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 280 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce GTX 280's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 280 is Radeon HD 4870 X2, which is faster by 2% and higher by 6 positions in our ranking.

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