GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 280X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 850 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 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 280X		8886 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		4200 points
	Difference: 4686 (112%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
Radeon R9 280X		250 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 280X is 100% quicker than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
	Difference: 144000 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280X will be quite a bit (approximately 165%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 67808 (165%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is a better choice, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2080 (8%)

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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.