UHD Graphics 770 vs Quadro NVS 280 PCIe

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated578
Place by popularitynot in top-10028
Power efficiencyno data28.60
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameNV37Raptor Lake GT1
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date25 May 2004 (20 years ago)27 September 2022 (2 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 coresno data256
Core clock speed275 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1650 MHz
Number of transistors45 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology150 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)13 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate1.10026.40
Floating-point processing powerno data0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs416

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16Ring Bus
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount64 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth8 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DMS-59Motherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 May 2004 27 September 2022
Chip lithography 150 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 13 Watt 15 Watt

NVS 280 PCIe has 15.4% lower power consumption.

UHD Graphics 770, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 18 years, and a 1400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 280 PCIe and UHD Graphics 770. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro NVS 280 PCIe is a workstation graphics card while UHD Graphics 770 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCIe
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