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General information Radeon R9 280 GeForce GTX 850M
Launched Q2 2012 Q2 2014
Used in Desktop Mobile
Factory AMD NVIDIA
Motherboard Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Memory 3072 MB 0 % 2048 MB 33.3 %
Core Clock 850 MHz 3 % 876 MHz 0 %
DirectX DirectX 12 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL OpenGL 4.4 OpenGL 4.5
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 W 0 % 40 W 80 %
Performance Radeon R9 280 GeForce GTX 850M
Overall Score 36531 0 % 25469 30.3 %
Future Proof 20 % 39.4 % 33 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 13345 0 % 6486 51.4 %
2D Benchmark Score 685.5 0 % 226.1 67 %
Average DirectX performance 43.1 FPS 0 % 20.4 FPS 52.6 %
DirectX 9 performance 85.4 FPS 0 % 43.6 FPS 48.9 %
DirectX 10 performance 30.1 FPS 0 % 12.1 FPS 59.9 %
DirectX 11 performance 31 FPS 0 % 14.1 FPS 54.7 %
DirectX 12 performance 25.9 FPS 0 % 12 FPS 53.8 %
Graphic card computing 2453.2 operations/s 0 % 1931.4 operations/s 21.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Radeon R9 280, GeForce GTX 850M.

Average frames per second Radeon R9 280 GeForce GTX 850M
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 77.7 FPS 48.8 FPS
High settings 139.8 FPS 87.8 FPS
Medium settings 167.8 FPS 105.4 FPS
Low settings 234.9 FPS 147.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 37.2 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game Grand Theft Auto V for Radeon R9 280, GeForce GTX 850M.

Grand Theft Auto V Radeon R9 280 GeForce GTX 850M
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 60.5 FPS 41.5 FPS
High settings 108.9 FPS 74.6 FPS
Medium settings 130.7 FPS 89.6 FPS
Low settings 183.0 FPS 125.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 31.5 %
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