AMD Radeon R9 280
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q
AMD Radeon R9 280
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

237
Place in performance rating
71
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Turing
Tahiti
Code name
TU104B
Desktop
Type
Laptop
4 March 2014 (7 years ago)
Release date
6 January 2019 (2 years ago)
$279
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$305 (1.1x MSRP)
Price now
$1268
reference
Design
no data
10.12
Value for money
12.54
Tahiti
GPU code name
N18E-G3-A1 MAX-Q TU104
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1792
Pipelines
2944
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Core clock speed
735-990 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1095 MHz
4,313 million
Transistor count
13,600 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
200 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
80 Watt
104.5
Texture fill rate
201.5
3,344 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
1792
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2944
933 MHz
Boost clock speed
1095-1230 MHz
4,313 million
Number of transistors
13,600 million
200 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
80 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
275 mm
Length
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1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
no data
no data
Laptop size
large
PCIe 3.0
Bus support
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR6
3 GB
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
384 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
1250 MHz
Memory clock speed
12000 MHz
240 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
384.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Display Connectors
No outputs
no data
G-SYNC support
+
1
Eyefinity
no data
+
HDMI
no data
-
DisplayPort support
no data

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q is the additional functionality.

no data
VR Ready
+
no data
Multi Monitor
+
no data
CUDA
7.5
-
AppAcceleration
no data
1
CrossFire
no data
1
FreeSync
no data
+
HD3D
no data
1
LiquidVR
no data
-
PowerTune
no data
1
TressFX
no data
+
TrueAudio
no data
-
ZeroCore
no data
+
DDMA audio
no data
-
Enduro
no data
+
UVD
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX® 12
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
+
Vulkan
1.2.131
5.1
Shader Model
6.5
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
-
Mantle
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon R9 280 or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 156 139 136 134
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 280

Cheaper ($305 (1.1x MSRP) vs $1268)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

38.76% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (2944 vs 1792)

Finer manufacturing process technology (12 nm vs 28 nm)

Less power consumption (80 Watt vs 200 Watt)

More maximum RAM amount (8 GB vs 3 GB)

More memory bandwidth (384.0 GB/s vs 240 GB/s)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

So, AMD Radeon R9 280 or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q .

AMD Radeon R9 280 versus NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon R9 280
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