AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 280

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 43.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5557 vs 129
  • Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 665 vs 367
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 March 2014 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5557 vs 129
PassMark - G2D Mark 665 vs 367

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 200 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 280
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5557
129
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
665
367
Name AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
PassMark - G3D Mark 5557 129
PassMark - G2D Mark 665 367
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 67.829
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1266.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.495
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 79.909
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 365.384
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3337
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3337
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2009

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Tesla
Code name Tahiti MCP79MX
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 4 March 2014 17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $279
Place in performance rating 431 434
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 933 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,344 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1792
Stream Processors 1792
Texture fill rate 104.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt 40 Watt
Transistor count 4,313 million 210 million
Core clock speed 450 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCI
Length 275 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 3.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 240 GB/s
Memory bus width 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz
Memory type GDDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)