AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710, 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
1553% significantly better overall score
102 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
23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 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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3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2350 points
1123% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
192 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
499% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288 GB/s
1904% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.37 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W
29 W
762% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

32 Gigapixels/s
1875% significantly higher pixel rate
1.62 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128 Gigatexels/s
1875% significantly higher texture rate
6.48 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
4166% significantly more shading units
48

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
1500% significantly more texture mapping units
8

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
700% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 586
502nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2016 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

Radeon R9 280X vs GeForce GT 710 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon R9 280X graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 710 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 710 has a significantly lower TDP at 29 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280X 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 280X is faster than the GeForce GT 710.

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