AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5200

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5200 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K5200

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 170.10

$ 228.90 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

2513 points

96% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

62 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

36 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

41 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

31 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

827 MHz

27% slightly higher core clock speed

650 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

933 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

771 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

240 GB/s

24% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

150 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.86 Gigapixels/s

37.01 Gigapixels/s

23% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

148 Gigatexels/s

41% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.34 TFLOPS

3.55 TFLOPS

6% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

2304

28% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

192

71% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

248th of 594

176th of 594

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon R9 280 vs Quadro K5200 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 280 GPU is faster than the Quadro K5200 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon R9 280 has a slightly 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 Radeon R9 280 also 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro K5200 has significantly more memory with 8 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 Quadro K5200 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R9 280 over the Quadro K5200.