NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
VS
AMD Radeon 630
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
VS
AMD Radeon 630

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 and AMD Radeon 630. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

596
Place in performance rating
582
2.27
Value for money (0-100)
no data
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GT200
Code name
Lexa
Desktop
Type
Laptop
16 June 2008 (13 years ago)
Release date
12 August 2019 (2 years ago)
$649
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$67 (0.1x MSRP)
Price now
$65
0.48
Value for money
0.50
GT200
GPU code name
Lexa
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 and AMD Radeon 630 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

240
Pipelines
512
602 MHz
Core clock speed
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Boost Clock
1219 MHz
1,400 million
Transistor count
2,200 million
65 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
236 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
48.2 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
38.98
622.1 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
105 °C
Maximum GPU temperature
no data
240
CUDA cores
no data
240
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
no data
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1,400 million
Number of transistors
2,200 million
236 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
50 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 and AMD Radeon 630.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
Length
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6-pin & 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
None
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SLI options
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4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Height
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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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 and AMD Radeon 630 can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
1107 MHz
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
141.7 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 and AMD Radeon 630, the size and number of monitors.

HDTVDual Link DVI
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
+
Multi monitor support
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2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
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S/PDIF
Audio input for HDMI
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HDMI
+

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 and AMD Radeon 630 is the additional functionality.

+
3D Vision
no data
+
CUDA
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 and AMD Radeon 630. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
DirectX 12, Shader 5.0
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
no data
Vulkan
+

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 and AMD Radeon 630 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 or AMD Radeon 630 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
AMD Radeon 630
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
AMD Radeon 630
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
AMD Radeon 630
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
AMD Radeon 630
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
AMD Radeon 630
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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

More memory bandwidth (141.7 GB/s vs 112.0 GB/s)

Advantages of AMD Radeon 630

1.01% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($65 vs $67 (0.1x MSRP))

More pipelines (512 vs 240)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 65 nm)

Less power consumption (50 Watt vs 236 Watt)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 1 GB)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 or AMD Radeon 630?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon 630 .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 versus AMD Radeon 630 performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon 630