NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G92 GF108
GPU variant N10E-GTX N12M-Q3
Architecture Tesla Fermi
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 754 million 585 million
Die size 324 mm² 116 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Mar 3rd, 2009 Feb 22nd, 2011
Generation GeForce 200M Quadro Mobile (x000M)
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface MXM-IV MXM-A (3.0)
Reviews 1 in our database 26 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 100M Quadro FX Mobile
Successor GeForce 300M

Clocks

GPU clock 585 MHz 700 MHz
Shader clock 1463 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory clock 950 MHz 1900 Mbps effective 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 60.80 GB/s 28.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 128 96
TMUs 64 16
ROPs 16 4
SM count 16 2
Cache L2 64 KB 256 KB
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM)

Performance

Pixel rate 9.360 GPixel/s 2.800 GPixel/s
Texture rate 37.44 GTexel/s 11.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 374.5 GFLOPS 268.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 22.40 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

TDP 75 W 35 W
Outputs No outputs No outputs
Slot width MXM Module

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 3.3 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1 2.1
Shader model 4.0 5.1

Other Features

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