GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 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 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this particular card. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units 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

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		19808 points
Radeon R9 280		7961 points
	Difference: 11847 (149%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, in theory, should perform a bit faster than the Radeon R9 280 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 22144 (9%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 134%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 139768 (134%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be much (approximately 244%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 280, and will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 72992 (244%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.