AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1687 points

33% slightly better overall score

1261 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

16 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2350 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2302 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz

6% 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

288 GB/s

49% significantly 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

32 Gigapixels/s

49.47 Gigapixels/s

54% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128 Gigatexels/s

59% significantly higher texture rate

80.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

59% significantly better floating point performance

2.57 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

23% slightly more shading units

1664

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

23% 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

228th of 593

250th of 593

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 280X vs Quadro M4000 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R9 280X beats the Quadro M4000 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 280X at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R9 280X is better than the Quadro M4000.