GeForce GTX 280M SLI: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce GTX 280M SLI provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.44% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 280M SLI sales 2 March 2009. This is a G9x architecture notebook card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 950 GHz are supplied.
Power consumption is at 150 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 280M SLI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in the ranking | 728 | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Power efficiency | 1.57 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
Architecture | G9x (2007−2010) | |
GPU code name | N10E-GTX | |
Market segment | Laptop | |
Release date | 2 March 2009 (15 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce GTX 280M SLI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 280M SLI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 256 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
Core clock speed | 585 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
Number of transistors | 1508 Million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
Power consumption (TDP) | 150 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 280M SLI 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).
Laptop size | large |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 280M SLI: 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 type | GDDR3 | |
Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory clock speed | 950 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
Shared memory | - |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 280M SLI, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 10 | |
CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 280M SLI. 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.
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 280M SLI 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.
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
Cyberpunk 2077 | 6−7 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−11 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 2−3 | |
Battlefield 5 | 6−7 | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 8−9 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 6−7 | |
Far Cry 5 | 7−8 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 9−10 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 18−20 | |
Hitman 3 | 8−9 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 24−27 | |
Metro Exodus | 5−6 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 8−9 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 12−14 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 40−45 |
Full HD
High Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−11 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 2−3 | |
Battlefield 5 | 6−7 | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 8−9 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 6−7 | |
Far Cry 5 | 7−8 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 9−10 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 18−20 | |
Hitman 3 | 8−9 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 24−27 | |
Metro Exodus | 5−6 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 8−9 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 12−14 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 14−16 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 40−45 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−11 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 2−3 | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 8−9 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 6−7 | |
Far Cry 5 | 7−8 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 18−20 | |
Hitman 3 | 8−9 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 24−27 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 12−14 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 14−16 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 40−45 |
Full HD
Epic Preset
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 8−9 |
1440p
High Preset
Battlefield 5 | 6−7 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 5−6 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 3−4 | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 2−3 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 2−3 | |
Far Cry 5 | 4−5 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 0−1 | |
Hitman 3 | 8−9 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 8−9 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 2−3 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 20−22 |
1440p
Epic Preset
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 7−8 |
4K
High Preset
Battlefield 5 | 2−3 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 2−3 |
4K
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 2−3 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 1−2 | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 1−2 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 0−1 | |
Far Cry 5 | 1−2 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 1−2 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 1−2 |
4K
Epic Preset
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4−5 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 280M SLI is Radeon HD 7770M, which is slower by 1% and lower by 1 position in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 280M SLI:
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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