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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M is a graphics card released on March 3, 2009. It has 128 shading units, 1 GB of GDDR3 memory on a 256-bit bus, 60.8 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 585 MHz and a 75 W board power rating. It scores 596 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3.

G92b

8/10 key specs recorded · 26 facts

Depth: 33 recorded fields, 2 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 8 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

128cores

Memory

1 GB

GDDR3 · 256-bit

Boost clock

n/a

585 MHz base

Board power

75 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M scores 596 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 41.4% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #1,755), measured across 67 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 97.

PassMark G3D Mark

596

Rank #1,755
Faster than 41.4% of 2,658 GPUs
67 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 19 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 35.8% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 1 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 0% of 1,602 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M averages DirectX 9 19 fps and DirectX 10 1 fps, across 67 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface PCIe 2.0 x16

Max memory 1 GB

Core clock 585 MHz

Memory clock 1900 MHz

DirectX 10

OpenGL 3.3

Max TDP 75 W

First benchmarked 2009-05-27

Samples 67

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M states the PCIe 2.0 x16 interface, up to 1 GB of memory, a core clock of 585 MHz, DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3, first benchmarked on 2009-05-27. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded

Codename G92b

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M uses the G92b graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units 128

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 64

Render output units (ROPs) 16

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M has 128 shading units, 64 texture mapping units and 16 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M.

Clock speeds

Base clock 585 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M runs at a base clock of 585 MHz.

Memory

Size 1 GB

Type GDDR3

Bus width 256-bit

Bandwidth 60.8 GB/s

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M is equipped with 1 GB of GDDR3 memory, uses a 256-bit memory bus and delivers 60.8 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M has a board power rating of 75 W and it connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 75 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 2.0 x16

Market

Launched March 3, 2009

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series GeForce GTX

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M was released on March 3, 2009.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 596

PassMark G2D 97

Rank #1,755

Samples 67

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M supports DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3.

DirectX 10.1

OpenGL 3.3

Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M.

Naming and aliases

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M [Dox Optimised 182.46] and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M (Mobile).

Other names (PassMark) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M [Dox Optimised 182.46]; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M (Mobile)