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.

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

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: 5558 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	5558 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

5558

129

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

665

367

Name	AMD Radeon R9 280	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
PassMark - G3D Mark	5558	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	432	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)