Geforce GTX 770 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 280, which has clock speeds of 933 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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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 770		7854 points
	Difference: 107 (1%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		22 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 770		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (57%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		183 Sol/s
Geforce GTX 770		70 Sol/s
	Difference: 113 (161%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 770		230 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 280 should in theory be a bit better than the Geforce GTX 770 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 770		224384 MB/sec
	Difference: 15616 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 should be quite a bit (about 28%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		133888 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29392 (28%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 770 is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		33472 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3616 (12%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). 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 ability to reach the maximum fill rate.