Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 280X, which features GPU core speed of 850 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1500 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 280X should perform much faster than the Geforce GTX 760 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280X will be a small bit (more or less 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

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is superior to the Radeon R9 280X, not by a very large margin though. (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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out 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 graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card 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 amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.