AMD Radeon R9 280 vs Intel Iris Xe

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs Intel Iris Xe, 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

31% slightly better overall score

974 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

Identical

10 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2043 points

1108% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

169 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

827 MHz

175% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

933 MHz

1100 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

15 W

1566% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.86 Gigapixels/s

126% significantly higher pixel rate

13.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

295% significantly higher texture rate

26.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.34 TFLOPS

8.45 TFLOPS

152% significantly better floating point performance

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

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

245th of 586

264th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR4

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon R9 280 vs Iris Xe benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R9 280 beats the Iris Xe in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon R9 280 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. Despite this, the Iris Xe has a slightly 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 Iris Xe has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280 at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 280 is faster than the Iris Xe.