AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA Quadro 5000M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA Quadro 5000M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 280

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 6.5x more texture fill rate: 104.5 GTexel / s vs 16.2 GTexel / s
  • 5.6x more pipelines: 1792 vs 320
  • 6.5x better floating-point performance: 3,344 gflops vs 518.4 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 71% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 1792 MB
  • 2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5552 vs 2060
  • Around 56% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 665 vs 426
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 March 2014 vs 27 July 2010
Texture fill rate 104.5 GTexel / s vs 16.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1792 vs 320
Floating-point performance 3,344 gflops vs 518.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 1792 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5552 vs 2060
PassMark - G2D Mark 665 vs 426

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 5000M

  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 200 Watt
  • Around 92% higher memory clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 1250 MHz
  • Around 42% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 5249 vs 3698
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7205 vs 3337
  • Around 42% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 5249 vs 3698
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 7205 vs 3337
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 200 Watt
Memory clock speed 2400 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5249 vs 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7205 vs 3337
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5249 vs 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7205 vs 3337

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 280
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 5000M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5552
2060
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
665
426
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3698
5249
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3337
7205
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3698
5249
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3337
7205
Name AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA Quadro 5000M
PassMark - G3D Mark 5552 2060
PassMark - G2D Mark 665 426
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 5249
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3337 7205
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3698 5249
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3337 7205
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2009
Geekbench - OpenCL 23008

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA Quadro 5000M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Fermi
Code name Tahiti GF100
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 4 March 2014 27 July 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $279
Place in performance rating 422 424
Type Desktop Mobile workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 933 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,344 gflops 518.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 1792 320
Stream Processors 1792
Texture fill rate 104.5 GTexel / s 16.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 4,313 million 3,100 million
Core clock speed 405 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Length 275 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 1792 MB
Memory bandwidth 240 GB/s 76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 2400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
ECC (Error Correcting Code)