GeForce RTX 5080 vs Quadro NVS 280 SD

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1550	4
Place by popularity	not in top-100	47
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	40.32
Power efficiency	no data	17.71
Architecture	Celsius (1999−2005)	Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code name	NV18 C1	GB203
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	31 May 2005 (19 years ago)	30 January 2025 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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	no data	10752
Core clock speed	250 MHz	2295 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2617 MHz
Number of transistors	29 million	45,600 million
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	10 Watt	360 Watt
Texture fill rate	1.000	879.3
Floating-point processing power	no data	56.28 TFLOPS
ROPs	2	112
TMUs	4	336
Tensor Cores	no data	336
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	84

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	AGP 8x	PCIe 5.0 x16
Length	168 mm	304 mm
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 16-pin

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	DDR	GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	16 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	200 MHz	1875 MHz
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB/s	960.0 GB/s
Resizable BAR	-	+

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	1x DMS-59	1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1b
HDMI	-	+

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	8.0	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	no data	6.8
OpenGL	1.3	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.4
CUDA	-	10.1
DLSS	-	+

Synthetic benchmark performance

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.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	no data	209
1440p	no data	161
4K	no data	110

Cost per frame, $

1080p	no data	4.78
1440p	no data	6.20
4K	no data	9.08

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	31 May 2005	30 January 2025
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	16 GB
Chip lithography	150 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	10 Watt	360 Watt

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