AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 149.99

$ 249.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

1317 points

2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

25 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

18 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

21 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

14 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

827 MHz

1740 MHz

110% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

933 MHz

1785 MHz

91% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

499% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

240 GB/s

150% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

75 W

233% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.86 Gigapixels/s

4% slightly higher pixel rate

28.56 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

82% significantly higher texture rate

57.12 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.34 TFLOPS

82% significantly better floating point performance

1.83 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

250% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

250% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

244th of 586

242nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 1630 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1630 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 280 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1630 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1630 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.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1630 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280 at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1630 is better than the Radeon R9 280.