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GeForce GTX 280

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 8.77% (285th of 681)

Based on 1,425 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 05E1 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
Poor: 8%Average: 8.77% Great: 10%

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Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 averaged 91.2% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 11.9fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 9.77fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 is just 1.77%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 10.6fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 5.62fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 1,425 samples)
Rank 2858.77%
Min Avg Max
10.1 Lighting 11.9 13.2
7.96 Reflection 10.6 14.2
4.94 Parallax 5.62 6.5
9.6% 9.36 fps
Min Avg Max
6.78 MRender 9.35 10.7
9.13 Gravity 9.77 10.7
3.4 Splatting 5.34 7.23
7.83% 8.15 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
EVGA(3842 1280) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01
8.74% Terrible
Lighting 11.9
Reflection 13.3
Parallax 5.8
10% 10.3 fps
MRender 8.7
Gravity 9.8
Splatting 3.7
8% 7.4 fps
XFX(1682 2400) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01
8.66% Terrible
Lighting 11.6
Reflection 12.8
Parallax 5.6
9% 10 fps
MRender 9.5
Gravity 9.8
Splatting 3.6
8% 7.63 fps
Nvidia(10DE 0557) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01
8.63% Terrible
Lighting 11.6
Reflection 12.8
Parallax 5.8
9% 10.1 fps
MRender 9.6
Gravity 9.7
Splatting 3.7
8% 7.67 fps
Asus(1043 8290) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 341.95
5.09% Terrible
Lighting 6.7
Reflection 5.8
Parallax 3.5
5% 5.33 fps
MRender 5.1
Gravity 6
Splatting 2.6
5% 4.57 fps
Asus(1043 8290) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01
3.66% Terrible
Lighting 0.2
Reflection 11.4
Parallax 5.8
0% 5.8 fps
MRender 9.3
Gravity 9.7
Splatting 3.7
8% 7.57 fps
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 53,402,897 GPUs tested.

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Based on statistics from 1,425 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Nvidia(10DE 0557) 42% 9% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8290) 14% 9% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2400) 11% 9% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1280) 8% 9% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1282) 7% 9% ± 0%
BFG(19F1 0998) 6% 9% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1284) 3% 9% ± 0%
Device(107D 2AE0) 3% 8% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8293) 2% 8% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1286) 2% 10% ± 1%
BFG(19F1 0A1A) 2% 10% ± 1%
BFG(19F1 0A02) 1% 9% ± 0%
BFG(19F1 0972) 1% 9% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 2400) 0% 9% ± 0%
Device(105B 0F12) 0% 9% ± 0%
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Gaming
Gaming 10%
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Desktop
Desktop 64%
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Workstation
Workstation 9%
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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R - $200

CPU
Core i7-920Intel  $311Bench 65%, 67,922 samples906x
Core i7-950Intel  $276Bench 68%, 34,259 samples99x
Xeon X5660IntelBench 72%, 7,300 samples59x
GPU
GeForce GTX 280NvidiaBench 9%, 1,425 samples1x
SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 105%, 770,272 samples52x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $92Bench 104%, 866,902 samples46x
A400 240GBKingston  $29Bench 66%, 392,925 samples39x
RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 103,464 samples234x
3x2GBUnknownBench 31%, 44,465 samples188x
3x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 38,308 samples148x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 55% - Above average Total price: $591

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GBR-User
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Excellent

20 months ago.

better than an rtx 2080ti lol. suck my peen

Dariex
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Average

20 months ago.

Runs valorant and csgo.

Crezey21
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Poor

3 years ago.

way overpriced, bulky and typically, the cards are sold in the original 2008 design

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