Quadro NVS 280 AGP vs Radeon HD 8450 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	Caicos	NV34 A1
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	8 January 2013 (13 years ago)	25 May 2004 (22 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Real power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially if overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	160	no data
Core clock speed	625 MHz	275 MHz
Number of transistors	370 million	45 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	18 Watt	13 Watt
Texture fill rate	5.000	1.100
Floating-point processing power	0.2 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	4
TMUs	8	4
L1 Cache	16 KB	no data
L2 Cache	128 KB	no data

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 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	168 mm	168 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	DDR3	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	667 MHz	250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	10.67 GB/s	8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DMS-59
HDMI	+	-

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0a
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	8 January 2013	25 May 2004
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	18 Watt	13 Watt