Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 280, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 933 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this particular model. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 280		7961 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 2038 (34%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		22 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 9 (69%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 280 should in theory perform much faster than the Geforce GTX 760 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 47744 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280 should be a small bit (more or less 11%) better at texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10416 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is the winner, but only just. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1504 (5%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.