AMD Radeon 630 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 630 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 630

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 808.7x more texture fill rate: 38.98 GTexel/s vs 48.2 billion / sec
  • 2.1x more pipelines: 512 vs 240
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
  • 4.7x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 236 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 58% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz (7000 MHz effective) vs 1107 MHz
  • Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3720 vs 2697
  • Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3720 vs 2697
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3361 vs 3325
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3361 vs 3325
  • 3.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 223 vs 62
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 May 2019 vs 16 June 2008
Texture fill rate 38.98 GTexel/s vs 48.2 billion / sec
Pipelines 512 vs 240
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 236 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (7000 MHz effective) vs 1107 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3720 vs 2697
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3720 vs 2697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361 vs 3325
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361 vs 3325
PassMark - G2D Mark 223 vs 62

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1296 MHz vs 1082 MHz
  • 2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 21396 vs 9651
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1299 vs 1272
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1296 MHz vs 1082 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 21396 vs 9651
PassMark - G3D Mark 1299 vs 1272

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 630
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3720
2697
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3720
2697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3361
3325
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3361
3325
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
9651
21396
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
223
62
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1272
1299
Name AMD Radeon 630 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3467
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3467
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3720 2697
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3720 2697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361 3325
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361 3325
Geekbench - OpenCL 9651 21396
PassMark - G2D Mark 223 62
PassMark - G3D Mark 1272 1299

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 630 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Tesla 2.0
Code name Polaris 23 GT200
Launch date 13 May 2019 16 June 2008
Place in performance rating 756 1051
Launch price (MSRP) $649
Price now $522.78
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 2.98

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1218 MHz
Compute units 8
Core clock speed 1082 MHz 1296 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 65 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 77.95 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 1247 GFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1247 GFLOPS
Pipelines 512 240
Pixel fill rate 19.49 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 38.98 GTexel/s 48.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 236 Watt
Transistor count 2200 million 1,400 million
CUDA cores 240
Floating-point performance 622.1 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVDual Link DVI
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 5.7 inches (145 mm) 10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
Supplementary power connectors None 6-pin & 8-pin
Width Dual-slot
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
SLI options 2-way3-way

API support

DirectX 12.0 10.0
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.0 GB/s 141.7 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (7000 MHz effective) 1107 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI