AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon HD 6800

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6800, 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
165% significantly better overall score
482 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
12 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
7 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

245th of 586
332nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon HD 6800 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon R9 280 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 6800 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R9 280 over the Radeon HD 6800.

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