NVIDIA T500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA T500 Mobile and AMD Radeon R9 M280X 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA T500 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA T500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 37% higher core clock speed: 1365 MHz vs 1000 MHz
1695x more texture fill rate: 94.92 GTexel/s vs 56 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	2 Dec 2020 vs 5 February 2015
Core clock speed	1365 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	94.92 GTexel/s vs 56 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M280X

Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3713 vs 3199
Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3713 vs 3199
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 3339
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 3339
Around 47% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 41708 vs 28425

Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3713 vs 3199
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3713 vs 3199
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358 vs 3339
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358 vs 3339
Geekbench - OpenCL	41708 vs 28425

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA T500 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M280X

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3199

3713

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3199

3713

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3339

3358

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3339

3358

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

28425

41708

Name	NVIDIA T500 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 M280X
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5095
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5095
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3199	3713
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3199	3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3339	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3339	3358
Geekbench - OpenCL	28425	41708
PassMark - G2D Mark		247
PassMark - G3D Mark		814

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA T500 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 M280X
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU117	Saturn
Launch date	2 Dec 2020	5 February 2015
Place in performance rating	654	656
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz
Core clock speed	1365 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	94.92 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.075 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.037 TFLOPS
Pipelines	896	896
Pixel fill rate	54.24 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	94.92 GTexel/s	56 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	2,080 million
Floating-point performance		1,792 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		Not Listed
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.1	11
OpenCL	3.0	Not Listed
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Mantle
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	80 GB/s	88 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz (10 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	Not Listed
Shared memory		0
Technologies
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore