NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCIe: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro NVS 280 PCIe 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 0.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 168 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 13 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about Quadro NVS 280 PCIe: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Rankine (2003−2005) | |
| GPU code name | NV37 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 25 May 2004 (19 years old) | |
| Current price | $99 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
Quadro NVS 280 PCIe's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro NVS 280 PCIe's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 275 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 45 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 150 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 13 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 1.100 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro NVS 280 PCIe 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 1.0 x16 | |
| Length | 168 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro NVS 280 PCIe: 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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 500 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 8 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro NVS 280 PCIe. 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 support
APIs supported by Quadro NVS 280 PCIe, 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 |
