Quadro NVS 280 PCI vs Radeon R7 250E

Place in the ranking	670	1490
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.27	no data
Power efficiency	5.46	0.11
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	Cape Verde	NV34 B1
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	20 December 2013 (11 years ago)	28 October 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$109	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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	512	no data
Core clock speed	800 MHz	275 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	45 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	13 Watt
Texture fill rate	25.60	1.100
Floating-point processing power	0.8192 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	2
TMUs	32	4

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCI
Length	168 mm	168 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz	250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	8 GB/s

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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DMS-59
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	9.0a
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Gaming performance

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

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.38	0.02
Recency	20 December 2013	28 October 2003
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	13 Watt

R7 250E has a 21800% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

NVS 280 PCI, on the other hand, has 323.1% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R7 250E is our recommended choice as it beats the Quadro NVS 280 PCI in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R7 250E is a desktop card while Quadro NVS 280 PCI is a workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.