AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000 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

2374 points

40% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS

48 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

36 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

32 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

28 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz

1050 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1038 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

36% slightly higher memory bandwidth

211.6 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

150 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

32 Gigapixels/s

66.43 Gigapixels/s

107% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128 Gigatexels/s

132.9 Gigatexels/s

3% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

4.25 TFLOPS

3% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

Identical

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

Identical

128

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

226th of 586

186th of 586

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 M5000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro M5000 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 280X in gaming.

The Quadro M5000 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Quadro M5000 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro M5000 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Quadro M5000 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Quadro M5000 is faster than the Radeon R9 280X.