GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 280, which comes with core clock speeds of 933 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 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 570		4387 points
	Difference: 3574 (81%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		22 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 570		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 9 (69%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 31 Watts (14%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 280 should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 570 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
	Difference: 88000 (58%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280 should be a lot (about 138%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 60576 (138%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 280 is superior to the GeForce GTX 570, but only just. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 576 (2%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.