AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT, 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

1687 points
1419% significantly better overall score
111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS
37 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS
34 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 586
492nd 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 280X vs GeForce 9800 GT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R9 280X beats the GeForce 9800 GT in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R9 280X over the GeForce 9800 GT.

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