Quadro NVS 280 SD vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1169	1610
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	2.11	no data
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	M96	NV18 C1
Market segment	Laptop	Workstation
Release date	9 January 2009 (17 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	320	no data
Core clock speed	500 MHz	250 MHz
Number of transistors	514 million	29 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	10 Watt
Texture fill rate	16.00	1.000
Floating-point processing power	0.32 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	2
TMUs	32	4
L1 Cache	64 KB	no data
L2 Cache	128 KB	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	medium sized	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 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	DDR2	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	600 MHz	200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	19.2 GB/s	3.2 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

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	10.1 (10_1)	8.0
Shader Model	4.1	no data
OpenGL	3.3	1.3
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

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

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no data

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	9 January 2009	31 May 2005
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Chip lithography	55 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	10 Watt