The Quadro NVS 280 SD was a professional graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on May 31st, 2005. Built on the 150 nm process, and based on the NV18C graphics processor, the card supports DirectX 7.0. Since Quadro NVS 280 SD does not support DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, it might not be able to run all the latest games. The NV18C graphics processor is a relatively small chip with a die area of only 65 mm² and 29 million transistors. It features 2 pixel shaders and 0 vertex shaders, 4 texture mapping units, and 2 ROPs. Due to the lack of unified shaders you will not be able to run recent games at all (which require unified shader/DX10+ support). NVIDIA has paired 64 MB DDR memory with the Quadro NVS 280 SD, which are connected using a 64-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 250 MHz, memory is running at 200 MHz.
Being a single-slot card, the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD does not require any additional power connector, its power draw is rated at 10 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x DMS-59. Quadro NVS 280 SD is connected to the rest of the system using an AGP 8x interface. The card measures 168 mm in length, and features a single-slot cooling solution.