AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12 GB, 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

2% slightly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

24 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

20 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

797 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

12 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

Identical

384 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

0.14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

225 W

11% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

32 Gigapixels/s

54.12 Gigapixels/s

69% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128 Gigatexels/s

216.5 Gigatexels/s

69% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

5.20 TFLOPS

26% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2880

40% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

240

87% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 586

229th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon R9 280X vs Quadro K6000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R9 280X beats the Quadro K6000 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon R9 280X 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. In addition, the Radeon R9 280X also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro K6000 has significantly more memory with 12 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 K6000 has a slightly lower TDP at 225 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280X at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R9 280X over the Quadro K6000.