Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 280X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 850 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units 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 280X		8886 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 2963 (50%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280X		21 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (62%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 280X should be quite a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 760 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 95744 (50%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280X is just a bit (more or less 16%) more effective at AF than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14720 (16%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is superior to the Radeon R9 280X, but not by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4160 (15%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.