NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 280
The Latest release of graphic card by nvidia OF 2008
Experience high definition worlds, lifelike characters, and forces of nature so powerful that your palms sweat and your heart races with every frame. Beyon
d games, watch Blu-ray movies and transcode video up to 7X faster than traditional CPUs1.Gaming that shakes you to the core
With more gaming horsepower than ever before and 1GB of memory, the GeForce GTX 280 GPU’s 240 processing cores make games such as Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures and Bionic Commando® feel like the real thing. Its powerful NVIDIA PhysX™ technology creates rich, immersive physical effects with stunningly accurate realism. Experience absolute immersion and a 50% pure performance boost than prior generation GPUs with the GeForce GTX 280 GPU.
The power to take you beyond
Beyond the field of play, GeForce GTX 280 seamlessly shifts tasks from the CPU to the GPU, allowing you to dive into the latest Blu-ray movie, surf the web in 3D, or transcode video to a personal video player up to 7x faster than traditional CPUs1. Now you can work and play at full speed
The Features and specification are given below.........
- 2nd Generation NVIDIA Unified Architecture: Second generation architecture delivers up to 50% more gaming performance over the first generation through 240 enhanced processing cores that provide incredible shading horsepower.
- NVIDIA PhysX™-Ready1: GeForce GPU support for NVIDIA PhysX technology, enabling a totally new class of physical gaming interaction for a more dynamic and realistic experience with GeForce.
- 3-way NVIDIA SLI® Technology2: Industry leading 3-way NVIDIA SLI technology offers amazing performance scaling by implementing 3-way AFR (Alternate Frame Rendering) for the world’s fastest gaming solution under Windows Vista with solid, state-of-the-art drivers.
- NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology3: CUDA technology unlocks the power of the GPU’s processing cores to accelerate the most demanding system tasks – such as video encoding – delivering up to 7x performance over traditional CPUs.
- NVIDIA PureVideo® HD Technology4 The combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.
- NVIDIA HybridPower™ Technology5 Lets you switch from the GeForce GTX 280 graphics card to the motherboard GeForce GPU when running non graphically-intensive applications for a quiet, low power PC experience.
Specification
| GPU Engine Specs: | |
| Processor Cores | 240 |
| Graphics Clock (MHz) | 602 MHz |
| Processor Clock (MHz) | 1296 MHz |
| Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) | 48.2 |
| Memory Specs: | |
| Memory Clock (MHz) | 1107 MHz |
| Standard Memory Config | 1GB GDDR3 |
| Memory Interface Width | 512-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) | 141.7 |
| Feature Support: | |
| NVIDIA SLI®-ready1 | 2-/3-way |
| NVIDIA PureVideo® Technology2 | HD |
| NVIDIA PhysX™-ready3 |  |
| NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology | |
| HybridPower™ Technology4 | |
| GeForce Boost | |
| Microsoft DirectX | 10 |
| OpenGL | 2.1 |
| Bus Support | PCI-E 2.0 x16 |
| Certified for Windows Vista | |
| Display Support: | |
| Maximum Digital Resolution | 2560 X 1600 |
| Maximum VGA Resolution | 2048 X 1536 |
| Standard Display Connectors | 2 dual-link DVI and 1 analog HDTV-out |
| Multi Monitor (# of displays) | 2 |
| HDCP5 | |
| HDMI6 | Via Adapter |
| Audio Input for HDMI | SPDIF |
| Standard Graphics Card Dimensions: | |
| Height | 4.376 inches (111 mm) |
| Length | 10.5 inches (267 mm) |
| Width | Dual-slot |
| Thermal and Power Specs: | |
| Maximum GPU Temperature | 105C |
| Maximum Graphics Card Power | 236W |
| Minimum System Power Requirement | 550W |
| Supplementary Power Connectors | One 8-pin + one 6-pin |
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