NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 AGP: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro NVS 280 AGP sales 25 May 2004. This is a Rankine architecture desktop card based on 150 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 64 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 168 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 13 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro NVS 280 AGP: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Rankine (2003−2005) | |
| GPU code name | NV34 A1 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 25 May 2004 (20 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Quadro NVS 280 AGP's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro NVS 280 AGP's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 275 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 45 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 150 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 13 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 1.100 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 4 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro NVS 280 AGP 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 | AGP 8x | |
| Length | 168 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro NVS 280 AGP: 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 | DDR | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 64 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 250 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 8 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro NVS 280 AGP. 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 | 1x DMS-59 |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Quadro NVS 280 AGP, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0a | |
| OpenGL | 1.5 (2.1) | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Similar GPUs
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