AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250, 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

1280 points

100% significantly better overall score

640 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2043 points

96% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1039 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

827 MHz

937 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

933 MHz

1038 MHz

11% slightly 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

399% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

10 W

2400% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.86 Gigapixels/s

79% significantly higher pixel rate

16.61 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

319% significantly higher texture rate

24.91 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

366% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

366% 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

302nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

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

4.5

4.6

Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce MX250 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R9 280 beats the GeForce MX250 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce MX250 has a slightly 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 MX250 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce MX250 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 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 Radeon R9 280 is better than the GeForce MX250.