NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 275 sales 15 January 2009 at a recommended price of $249 . This is a 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 a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 219 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 275: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	714
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.33
Power efficiency	1.13	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name	GT200B
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	15 January 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$249	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 275's specs 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 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	633 MHz	of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors	1,400 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	219 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C
Texture fill rate	50.64	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	0.6739 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	28	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	80	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 275 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).

Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Height	4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
SLI options	+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 275: 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	896 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	448 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1134 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	127.0 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 275. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors	Two Dual Link DVI
Multi monitor support	+
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI	S/PDIF

API compatibility

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 RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 275. 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.

GTX 275 3.59

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of 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.

GTX 275 1384

Gaming performance

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.

Closest competitors

GeForce GTX 275's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.

GeForce GT 740 106.96

Iris Graphics 550 103.06

Radeon 550X 102.79

GeForce GTX 275 100

Radeon 540 99.72

Radeon HD 4870 99.16

GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2 98.89

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 275 is Radeon 540, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.