NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 280M SLI sales 2 March 2009. This is a G9x architecture notebook card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 950 GHz are supplied.

Power consumption is at 150 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 280M SLI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	685
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	1.08
Architecture	G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name	N10E-GTX
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	2 March 2009 (15 years ago)
Current price	$149	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 280M SLI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 280M SLI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	256	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	585 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	1508 Million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 280M SLI's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size

large

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 280M SLI: 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	2 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	950 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Shared memory	-

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 280M SLI, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	10
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 280M SLI. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance 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 280M SLI 3.46

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GTX 280M SLI 9435

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 280M SLI 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.

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

6−7

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2
Battlefield 5	9−10
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7
Far Cry 5	6−7
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7
Forza Horizon 4	10−11
Hitman 3	7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn	6−7
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11
Watch Dogs: Legion	3−4

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2
Battlefield 5	9−10
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7
Far Cry 5	6−7
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7
Forza Horizon 4	10−11
Hitman 3	7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn	6−7
Metro Exodus	5−6
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	8−9
Watch Dogs: Legion	3−4

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2
Battlefield 5	9−10
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7
Far Cry 5	6−7
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7
Forza Horizon 4	10−11
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	8−9
Watch Dogs: Legion	3−4

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	6−7
Hitman 3	6−7
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−11
Metro Exodus	2−3
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3
Far Cry 5	5−6
Far Cry New Dawn	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	3−4

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4
Hitman 3	3−4
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2
Cyberpunk 2077	0−1
Far Cry 5	4−5
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7
Forza Horizon 4	0−1

Relative performance

Overall GeForce GTX 280M SLI performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

Radeon HD 7770M 102.89

Radeon HD 7850M 102.31

Radeon HD 6950M 102.02

GeForce GTX 280M SLI 100

GeForce GT 750M 98.84

Radeon R7 M275DX 97.4

Radeon HD 8790M 97.4

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 280M SLI is Radeon HD 6950M, which is faster by 2% and higher by 5 positions in our ranking.