AMD Radeon R9 280
VS
NVIDIA Quadro M5000
AMD Radeon R9 280
VS
NVIDIA Quadro M5000

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA Quadro M5000. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

237
Place in performance rating
139
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Value for money (0-100)
16.29
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Tahiti
Code name
GM204
Desktop
Type
Workstation
4 March 2014 (7 years ago)
Release date
29 June 2015 (6 years ago)
$279
Launch price (MSRP)
$2,856.99
$305 (1.1x MSRP)
Price now
$993 (0.3x MSRP)
reference
Design
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10.12
Value for money
14.45
Tahiti
GPU code name
GM204
Desktop
Market segment
Workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA Quadro M5000 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1792
Pipelines
2048
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Core clock speed
861 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
4,313 million
Transistor count
5,200 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
200 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
104.5
Texture fill rate
132.9
3,344 gflops
Floating-point performance
4,252 gflops
1792
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
933 MHz
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
4,313 million
Number of transistors
5,200 million
200 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
150 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA Quadro M5000.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
275 mm
Length
267 mm
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
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SLI options
+
PCIe 3.0
Bus support
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Width
2" (5.1 cm)

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 Quadro M5000 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
256 Bit
3 GB
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
384 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
1250 MHz
Memory clock speed
6612 MHz
240 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon R9 280 and NVIDIA Quadro M5000, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Display Connectors
DVI-I DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo
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Number of simultaneous displays
4
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Multi-display synchronization
Quadro Sync
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 Quadro M5000 is the additional functionality.

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CUDA
5.2
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3D Vision Pro
+
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Mosaic
+
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ECC (Error Correcting Code)
+
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High-Performance Video I/O6
+
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nView Desktop Management
+
-
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 Quadro M5000. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX® 12
DirectX
12
4.6
OpenGL
4.5
+
Vulkan
+
5.1
Shader Model
5
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
-
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 Quadro M5000 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 Quadro M5000 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA Quadro M5000
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA Quadro M5000
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA Quadro M5000
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA Quadro M5000
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon R9 280
NVIDIA Quadro M5000
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 $993 (0.3x MSRP))

Advantages of NVIDIA Quadro M5000

16.86% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (2048 vs 1792)

Less power consumption (150 Watt vs 200 Watt)

More maximum RAM amount (8 GB vs 3 GB)

So, AMD Radeon R9 280 or NVIDIA Quadro M5000?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA Quadro M5000 .

AMD Radeon R9 280 versus NVIDIA Quadro M5000 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon R9 280
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA Quadro M5000