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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275: specs and benchmarks
Price now
89$
Games supported
63%
- Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
- Core clock speed 633MHz
- Max video memory 896MB
- Memory type GDDR3
- Memory clock speed 1134MHz
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2009
Performance
4.77
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 275 sales 15 January 2009 at a recommended price of $249. This is Tesla 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 896 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.13 GHz are supplied, and together with 448 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 127.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm). 2x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 219 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
4.77%
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
General info
Of GeForce GTX 275's architecture, market segment and release date.
| Place in performance rating | 584 | |
| Value for money | 0.67 | |
| Architecture | Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013) | |
| GPU code name | GT200B | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 15 January 2009 (13 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $249 | |
| Price now | $89 (0.4x MSRP) | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Value for money
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 275's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 275's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 240 | of 18432 (AD102) |
| CUDA cores | 240 | |
| Core clock speed | 633 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 1,400 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 219 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
| Maximum GPU temperature | 105 °C | |
| Texture fill rate | 50.6 billion/sec | of 939.8 (H100 SXM5) |
| Floating-point performance | 673.9 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on GeForce GTX 275's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm) | |
| Height | 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm) | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin | |
| SLI options | + |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 275: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 896 MB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 448 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1134 MHz | of 21000 (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti) |
| Memory bandwidth | 127.0 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 275. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
| Display Connectors | Two Dual Link DVI | |
| Multi monitor support | + | |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
| Audio input for HDMI | S/PDIF |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 275, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.0 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 275. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. 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.
- Passmark
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various 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.
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 275 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.
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 275 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 275 from AMD is Radeon HD 4870, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our rating.
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Recommended processors
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