AMD Radeon R9 M280X
vs
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Our Verdict: Upgrading from R9 M280X to GTX 970M is not recommended as it is less than 30% of improvement in performance. In general, a reasonable upgrade is between 30% and 50% or more to justify the purchase of new hardware.

Game Performance at selected quality settings

AMD Radeon R9 M280X / i7-4770K

In terms of cost, pricing clearly is a genuine issue here and the price of R9 M280X is simply ridiculous. This combination between R9 M280X and Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz has less than 8% bottleneck in many games and is perfect match to avoid FPS loss. This combination between R9 M280X and Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz is a perfect match to avoid FPS loss. With current 4096 MB RAM, the R9 M280X can have very few memory-related bottlenecks in more modern games.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M / i7-4770K

In terms of cost, pricing clearly is a genuine issue here and the price of GTX 970M is simply ridiculous. With regards to max load temperature, the GTX 970M 's cooling is excellent at keeping it cool and under control. This combination between GTX 970M and Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz has less than 8% bottleneck in many games and is perfect match to avoid FPS loss. This combination between GTX 970M and Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz is a perfect match to avoid FPS loss. With current 3072 MB RAM, the GTX 970M can have very few memory-related bottlenecks in more modern games.

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Board Design

	R9 M280X	GTX 970M
Outputs	No outputs	No outputs
TDP	unknown	unknown

Clock Speeds

	R9 M280X	GTX 970M
Boost Clock	1000 MHz	1038 MHz
GPU Clock	900 MHz	924 MHz
Memory Clock	1375 MHz 5500 MHz effective	1253 MHz 5012 MHz effective

Graphics Card

	R9 M280X	GTX 970M
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Generation	Crystal System (R9 M200)	GeForce 900M
Production	Active	End-of-life
Release Date	Feb 5th, 2015	Oct 7th, 2014

Graphics Features

	R9 M280X	GTX 970M
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.3	6.4
Vulkan	1.1.101	1.1.103

Graphics Processor

	R9 M280X	GTX 970M
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Maxwell 2.0
Die Size	160 mm²	398 mm²
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC
GPU Name	Saturn	GM204
GPU Variant	Saturn XT	N16E-GT-A2
Process Size	28 nm	28 nm
Transistors	2,080 million	5,200 million

Memory

	R9 M280X	GTX 970M
Bandwidth	88.00 GB/s	120.3 GB/s
Memory Bus	128 bit	192 bit
Memory Size	4 GB	6 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5

Render Config

	R9 M280X	GTX 970M
L1 Cache	16 KB (per CU)	48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache	256 KB	1536 KB
ROPs	16	48
Shading Units	896	1280
TMUs	56	80

Theoretical Performance

	R9 M280X	GTX 970M
FP32 (float) performance	1.792 TFLOPS	2.657 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance	128.0 GFLOPS (1:14)	83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
Pixel Rate	16.00 GPixel/s	49.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	56.00 GTexel/s	83.04 GTexel/s