AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 280X and NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 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 7950 GX2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 280X

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2x 512 MB
30.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6152 vs 202
Around 63% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 675 vs 413

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 October 2013 vs 5 June 2006
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	6152 vs 202
PassMark - G2D Mark	675 vs 413

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

Around 66% higher texture fill rate: 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 128.0 GTexel / s
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 110 Watt vs 250 Watt

Texture fill rate	2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 128.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	110 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 280X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6152

202

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

675

413

Name	AMD Radeon R9 280X	NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2
PassMark - G3D Mark	6152	202
PassMark - G2D Mark	675	413
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 7950 GX2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Tahiti	G71
Design	AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date	8 October 2013	5 June 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$299	$599
Place in performance rating	383	386
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Price now		$54.99
Value for money (0-100)		4.54
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	2048
Stream Processors	2048
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s	2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	110 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	278 million
Core clock speed		500 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 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	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	275 mm	270 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	288 GB/s	2x 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Memory clock speed		1200 MHz
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)