Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 280X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 850 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 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 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

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 280X should theoretically be a lot superior to 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 should be just a bit (about 16%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is a little bit (more or less 15%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 280X, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.