AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 134.75

$ 264.25 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

2% slightly better overall score

1252 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

Identical

19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

15 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2043 points

2302 points

12% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

827 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

800 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

120 W

108% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.86 Gigapixels/s

49.47 Gigapixels/s

65% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

80.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.34 TFLOPS

29% slightly better floating point performance

2.57 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

7% slightly more shading units

1664

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

7% slightly more texture mapping units

104

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

247th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.4

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon R9 280 vs Quadro M4000 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon R9 280 graphics card is better than the Quadro M4000 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon R9 280 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro M4000 has significantly more memory with 8 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 M4000 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280 at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R9 280 over the Quadro M4000.