GeForce GTX 750 Ti vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 280, which comes with a core clock frequency of 933 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also features a 384-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1792 SPUs, 112 TAUs, 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 280		7961 points
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		4562 points
	Difference: 3399 (75%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		183 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		72 Sol/s
	Difference: 111 (154%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 280 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 153600 (178%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280 is quite a bit (about 156%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		40800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 63696 (156%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 280 is superior to the GeForce GTX 750 Ti, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		16320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13536 (83%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.