NVIDIA GRID K280Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID K280Q and AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K280Q

• Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
• Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 95.36 GTexel / s vs 93.6 GTexel / s
• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
• 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 6555 vs 2810
• 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 6555 vs 2810
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3562 vs 3354
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3562 vs 3354

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

• Around 24% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 745 MHz
• Around 31% better floating-point performance: 2,995 gflops vs 2,289 gflops
• Around 22% lower typical power consumption: 185 Watt vs 225 Watt
• Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
• Around 57% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4470 vs 2840
• Around 78% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 661 vs 371
• 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3264 vs 1312
• 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3264 vs 1312

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID K280Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2840 4470
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	371 661
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6555 2810
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6555 2810
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3562 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3562 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1312 3264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1312 3264

Compare specifications (specs)