GeForce GTX 750 Ti vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 280X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 850 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1500 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 SPUs, 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 750 Ti		4562 points
	Difference: 4324 (95%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280X		294 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		72 Sol/s
	Difference: 222 (308%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 750 Ti		60 Watts
Radeon R9 280X		250 Watts
	Difference: 190 Watts (317%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 280X should be 233% quicker than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 201600 (233%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280X is a lot (about 167%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		40800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 68000 (167%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 280X is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		16320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10880 (67%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus 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 ANOTHER 2x. The better the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 applied in a second.

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