NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M videocard review

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

GeForce GTX 280M videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 3 March 2009. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G92.

Core clock speed - 1463 MHz. Texture fill rate - 38 billion / sec. Pipelines - 128. Floating-point performance - 374.5 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 65 nm. Transistors count - 754 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 75 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 256 Bit. Memory bandwidth - 61 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38588
576
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
153
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225 Frames
1876 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225.000 Fps
1876.000 Fps
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 576
PassMark - G2D Mark 153
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 1876 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 1876.000 Fps

Games performance

GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008)

Low, 800x60059.80
Medium, 1024x76854.80
High, 1280x102438.84

Left 4 Dead (2008)

High, 1024x768121.20

Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)

High, 1280x102478.80

Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)

Medium, 1024x76854.90
High, 1024x76846.03

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x768122.00
Medium, 1024x76865.95
High, 1024x76845.00

World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)

Medium, 1024x76877.00
High, 1024x76846.00

Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)

High, 1024x768144.00

Doom 3 (2004)

Low, 640x480161.00
Ultra, 1024x768160.00

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768695.00

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Tesla
Code name G92
Launch date 3 March 2009
Place in performance rating 1263
Type Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1463 MHz
CUDA cores 128
Floating-point performance 374.5 gflops
Gigaflops 562
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm
Pipelines 128
Texture fill rate 38 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt
Transistor count 754 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Display Connectors HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Interface MXM-IV
Laptop size large
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 10.0
OpenGL 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 61 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory type GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0
PureVideo HD
SLI