AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA Quadro P4200

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro P4200 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

2911 points

72% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS

56 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

47 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

39 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

36 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz

1227 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

100 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

228th of 590

159th of 590

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon R9 280X vs Quadro P4200 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro P4200 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 280X in gaming.

The Quadro P4200 has a significantly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro P4200 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 P4200 has a significantly lower TDP at 100 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 Quadro P4200 over the Radeon R9 280X.