NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2299 points

36% slightly better overall score

1687 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

52 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

40 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

31 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

37 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

35 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3677 points

56% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2350 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1350 MHz

58% significantly higher core clock speed

850 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

55 W

354% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

190th of 586

226th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1650 Ti vs Radeon R9 280X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti beats the Radeon R9 280X in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1650 Ti has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 55 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280X at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti is better than the Radeon R9 280X.