AMD Radeon R9 280
VS
NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book
AMD Radeon R9 280
VS
NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

237
Place in performance rating
429
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Maxwell
Tahiti
Code name
Surface Book
Desktop
Type
Laptop
4 March 2014 (7 years ago)
Release date
1 October 2015 (6 years ago)
$279
Launch price (MSRP)
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$305 (1.1x MSRP)
Price now
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reference
Design
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10.12
Value for money
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Tahiti
GPU code name
Surface Book
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1792
Pipelines
384
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Core clock speed
954 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
993 MHz
4,313 million
Transistor count
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28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
200 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
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104.5
Texture fill rate
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3,344 gflops
Floating-point performance
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1792
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
933 MHz
Boost clock speed
993 MHz
4,313 million
Number of transistors
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200 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
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275 mm
Length
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1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
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PCIe 3.0
Bus support
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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 Maxwell GPU Surface Book can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
3 GB
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
384 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
1250 MHz
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
240 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
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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 Maxwell GPU Surface Book, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Display Connectors
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1
Eyefinity
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+
HDMI
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-
DisplayPort support
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Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book is the additional functionality.

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GPU Boost
+
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CUDA
+
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GeForce Experience
+
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Optimus
+
-
AppAcceleration
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1
CrossFire
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1
FreeSync
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+
HD3D
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1
LiquidVR
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-
PowerTune
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1
TressFX
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+
TrueAudio
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-
ZeroCore
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+
DDMA audio
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-
Enduro
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+
UVD
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX® 12
DirectX
DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0
4.6
OpenGL
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+
Vulkan
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5.1
Shader Model
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1.2
OpenCL
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-
Mantle
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Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book 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 Maxwell GPU Surface Book good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book
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

14.88% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (1792 vs 384)

More maximum RAM amount (3 GB vs 1 GB)

Advantages of NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book

There is no accountable advantage

So, AMD Radeon R9 280 or NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R9 280 .

AMD Radeon R9 280 versus NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon R9 280
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