Quadro NVS 280 PCIe vs Radeon R9 380

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	335	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	9.02	no data
Power efficiency	5.80	no data
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	Antigua	NV37
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Design	reference	no data
Release date	18 June 2015 (9 years ago)	25 May 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	1792	no data
Compute units	28	no data
Core clock speed	no data	275 MHz
Boost clock speed	970 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	5,000 million	45 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	190 Watt	13 Watt
Texture fill rate	108.6	1.100
Floating-point processing power	3.476 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	4
TMUs	112	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).

Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	221 mm	168 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Form factor	full height / full length / dual slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2 x 6-pin	None
Bridgeless CrossFire	+	-

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
High bandwidth memory (HBM)	-	no data
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	970 MHz	250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	182.4 GB/s	8 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no 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 Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DMS-59
Eyefinity	+	-
Number of Eyefinity displays	6	no data
HDMI	+	-
DisplayPort support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire	+	-
FRTC	+	-
FreeSync	+	-
HD3D	+	-
LiquidVR	+	-
PowerTune	+	-
TrueAudio	+	-
ZeroCore	+	-
VCE	+	-
DDMA audio	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	DirectX® 12	9.0a
Shader Model	6.3	no data
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL	2.0	N/A
Vulkan	+	N/A
Mantle	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	18 June 2015	25 May 2004
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	190 Watt	13 Watt

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