Geforce GTX 770 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 280, which features a clock speed of 933 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1792 SPUs, 112 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 280		7961 points
Geforce GTX 770		7854 points
	Difference: 107 (1%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		22 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 770		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (57%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		183 Sol/s
Geforce GTX 770		70 Sol/s
	Difference: 113 (161%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 770		230 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 280 should perform just a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 770 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 770		224384 MB/sec
	Difference: 15616 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 is quite a bit (more or less 28%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		133888 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29392 (28%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 770 is superior to the Radeon R9 280, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		33472 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3616 (12%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.