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GeForce GTX 280

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 8.72% (272nd of 666)

Based on 1,318 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 05E1 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
Poor: 8%Average: 8.72% 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) 11.8fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 9.7fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 is just 1.98%. 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) 10.1fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 5.53fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 1,318 samples)
Rank 2728.72%
Min Avg Max
10 Lighting 11.8 13.1
8.01 Reflection 10.1 14
4.94 Parallax 5.53 6.34
9.57% 9.14 fps
Min Avg Max
6.51 MRender 9.22 10.6
9.1 Gravity 9.7 10.6
3.51 Splatting 5.72 7.3
7.73% 8.21 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
XFX(1682 2400) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01
9.69% Terrible
Lighting 13
Reflection 14.4
Parallax 6.6
10% 11.3 fps
MRender 10.8
Gravity 10.9
Splatting 4.3
9% 8.67 fps
EVGA(3842 1284) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 341.74
9.57% Terrible
Lighting 13
Reflection 14
Parallax 6.3
10% 11.1 fps
MRender 10.5
Gravity 10.6
Splatting 3.9
8% 8.33 fps
EVGA(3842 1284) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 341.74
9.5% Terrible
Lighting 12.9
Reflection 14.1
Parallax 6.4
10% 11.1 fps
MRender 10.5
Gravity 10.5
Splatting 4.2
8% 8.4 fps
EVGA(3842 1282) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 341.74
9.17% Terrible
Lighting 12.5
Reflection 13.2
Parallax 6.7
10% 10.8 fps
MRender 10
Gravity 10.1
Splatting 3.7
8% 7.93 fps
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 46,331,819 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 1,318 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Nvidia(10DE 0557) 43% 9% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8290) 16% 9% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2400) 11% 9% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1280) 7% 9% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1282) 7% 9% ± 0%
BFG(19F1 0998) 5% 8% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8293) 2% 8% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1284) 2% 9% ± 0%
Device(107D 2AE0) 2% 8% ± 1%
BFG(19F1 0A1A) 2% 10% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1286) 1% 10% ± 2%
BFG(19F1 0972) 1% 9% ± 0%
BFG(19F1 0A02) 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 63%
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Workstation
Workstation 9%
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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R - $200

CPU
Core i7-920Intel  $234Bench 64%, 66,871 samples764x
Core i7-950Intel  $287Bench 67%, 35,920 samples82x
Xeon X5660IntelBench 73%, 5,787 samples51x
GPU
GeForce GTX 280NvidiaBench 9%, 1,318 samples1x
SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 106%, 609,576 samples49x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 103%, 827,550 samples38x
A400 240GBKingston  $29Bench 66%, 307,480 samples29x
RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 42%, 90,173 samples202x
3x2GBUnknownBench 32%, 41,595 samples153x
3x4GBUnknownBench 42%, 40,732 samples123x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 57% - Above average Total price: $514

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3 months ago.

GBR-User
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Excellent

10 months ago.

better than an rtx 2080ti lol. suck my peen

Dariex
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Average

11 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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