Quadro NVS 280 SD vs GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	164	1591
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	22.92	no data
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2025)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	GA104	NV18 C1
Market segment	Laptop	Workstation
Release date	12 January 2021 (4 years ago)	31 May 2005 (20 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. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	5120	no data
Core clock speed	1110 MHz	250 MHz
Boost clock speed	1560 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	17,400 million	29 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	125 Watt	10 Watt
Texture fill rate	249.6	1.000
Floating-point processing power	15.97 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	80	2
TMUs	160	4
Tensor Cores	160	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	40	no data
L1 Cache	5 MB	no data
L2 Cache	4 MB	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).

Laptop size	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	no data	168 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	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	GDDR6	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	3.2 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data
Resizable BAR	+	-

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

No outputs

1x DMS-59

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	8.0
Shader Model	6.5	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.3
OpenCL	2.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.2	N/A
CUDA	8.6	-
DLSS	+	-

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	112	no data
1440p	70	no data
4K	45	no data

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	12 January 2021	31 May 2005
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	8 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	125 Watt	10 Watt

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