AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 280X and NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go 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 280X

NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 280X

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 8 month(s) later
4x more boost clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 250 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
48x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 64 MB

Launch date	8 October 2013 vs 1 February 2002
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz vs 250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 64 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go

125x lower typical power consumption: 2 Watt vs 250 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	2 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 280X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go

Name	AMD Radeon R9 280X	NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go
PassMark - G3D Mark	6138
PassMark - G2D Mark	675
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	89.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1434.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	7.656
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	87.459
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	493.57
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	9603
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3700
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	9603
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3700
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2351

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 280X	NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0
Code name	Tahiti
Design	AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date	8 October 2013	1 February 2002
Launch price (MSRP)	$299
Place in performance rating	372	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	2048
Stream Processors	2048
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	2 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	27 Million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	275 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12	DDR
OpenGL	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	288 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5	32 / 64 / 128
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)