AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M2000

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 125.00

$ 274.00 significantly less expensive

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

9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

21 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

14 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

12 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

827 MHz

1180 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

933 MHz

1163 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

240 GB/s

126% significantly higher memory bandwidth

105.8 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

37.22 Gigapixels/s

24% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

87% significantly higher texture rate

55.82 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.34 TFLOPS

87% significantly better floating point performance

1.79 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

133% significantly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

133% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

244th of 586

267th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon R9 280 vs Quadro M2000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 280 GPU is faster than the Quadro M2000 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Quadro M2000 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 Quadro M2000 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 M2000 has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro M2000 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R9 280 over the Quadro M2000.