GeForce GTX 280: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce GTX 280 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.34% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 280 sales 16 June 2008 at a recommended price of $649 . This is a Tesla 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.11 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 141.7 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. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 236 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 280: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 739 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.12 | |
| Power efficiency | 0.97 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013) | |
| GPU code name | GT200 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 16 June 2008 (16 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $649 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed specifications
GeForce GTX 280's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 280'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 | 602 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 1,400 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 236 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Maximum GPU temperature | 105 °C | |
| Texture fill rate | 48.16 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.6221 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 32 | 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 280 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).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Height | 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm) | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | |
| SLI options | + |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 280: 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 | 1 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 512 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1107 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 141.7 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 280. 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 | HDTVDual Link DVI | |
| Multi monitor support | + | |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
| Audio input for HDMI | S/PDIF |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 280, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 280. 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.
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.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 280 is Radeon HD 4870 X2, which is faster by 2% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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