GeForce GTX 1650 vs Quadro NVS 280 PCIe

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated269
Place by popularitynot in top-1003
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data38.83
Power efficiencyno data18.68
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNV37TU117
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date25 May 2004 (20 years ago)23 April 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$149

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 coresno data896
Core clock speed275 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1665 MHz
Number of transistors45 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)13 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate1.10093.24
Floating-point processing powerno data2.984 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs456

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length168 mm229 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDRGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount64 MB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed250 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s128.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 Connectors1x DMS-591x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 May 2004 23 April 2019
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 13 Watt 75 Watt

NVS 280 PCIe has 476.9% lower power consumption.

GTX 1650, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 280 PCIe and GeForce GTX 1650. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro NVS 280 PCIe is a workstation graphics card while GeForce GTX 1650 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCIe
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