GeForce GTX 750 Ti vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

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

Display Graphs

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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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 280X will be 233% faster than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti in general, because of its greater 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 will be much (more or less 167%) faster with regards to AF 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 running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 280X is a better choice, by a large margin. (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 transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.