GeForce 7025 + nForce 630a vs Radeon R9 280

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking379not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.95no data
Power efficiency4.88no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameTahitiC67
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date4 March 2014 (11 years ago)1 February 2006 (19 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$279 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1792no data
Core clock speedno data425 MHz
Boost clock speed933 MHzno data
Number of transistors4,313 million112 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Wattno data
Texture fill rate104.50.43
Floating-point processing power3.344 TFLOPSno data
ROPs321
TMUs1121

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCI
Length275 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount3 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth240 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
LiquidVR+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudio+-
UVD+-
DDMA audio+no data

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX® 129.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.13.0
OpenGL4.62.1
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 March 2014 1 February 2006
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm

R9 280 has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 280 and GeForce 7025 + nForce 630a. We've got no test results to judge.

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