AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q, 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

1% slightly better overall score

1669 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS

42 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

29 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

18 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz

1200 MHz

41% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1620 MHz

62% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288 GB/s

156% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112.1 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

40 W

525% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

32 Gigapixels/s

51.84 Gigapixels/s

62% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128 Gigatexels/s

23% slightly higher texture rate

103.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

23% slightly better floating point performance

3.32 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

100% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 586

227th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

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 T2000 Max-Q specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 280X GPU is faster than the Quadro T2000 Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that the Quadro T2000 Max-Q 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 Quadro T2000 Max-Q also has a significantly 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.

In addition, the Quadro T2000 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 40 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 Quadro T2000 Max-Q.