NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

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

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2244 points
33% slightly better overall score
1687 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

53 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
40 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

37 FPS
1 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

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce GTX 1650 and the Radeon R9 280X? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3627 points
54% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2350 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1485 MHz
74% significantly higher core clock speed
850 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz
66% significantly higher boost clock speed
1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
33% slightly more memory
3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
384 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

128.1 GB/s
288 GB/s
124% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
233% significantly lower TDP
250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

53.28 Gigapixels/s
66% significantly higher pixel rate
32 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

93.24 Gigatexels/s
128 Gigatexels/s
37% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.98 TFLOPS
4.10 TFLOPS
37% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896
2048
128% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

56
128
128% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
Identical
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

194th of 586
226th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April
-

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon R9 280X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1650 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 280X in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1650 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1650 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1650 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280X at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1650 over the Radeon R9 280X.

Comments

No comments yet! Be the first to leave a comment using the form below.

Keep comments on topic and be polite. Comments are subject to moderation before they are published.

Popular GPU Comparisons