AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon HD 6800

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6800, 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
250% significantly better overall score
482 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS
28 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
12 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS
28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
7 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 586
331st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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Radeon R9 280X vs Radeon HD 6800 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 280X GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 6800 in gaming.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 280X is faster than the Radeon HD 6800.

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