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GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

The GeForce GTX 570 has core clock speeds of 732 MHz on the GPU, and 950 MHz on the 1280 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 480 SPUs as well as 60 TAUs and 40 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 280, which features a core clock speed of 933 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, 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 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

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 280 should be much faster 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 will be a lot (about 138%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 280 is the winner, 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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 570 Radeon R9 280
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year December 2010 March 2014
Code Name GF110 Tahiti Pro
Memory 1280 MB 3072 MB
Core Speed 732 MHz 933 MHz
Memory Speed 3800 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 219 watts 250 watts
Bandwidth 152000 MB/sec 240000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43920 Mtexels/sec 104496 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29280 Mpixels/sec 29856 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 480 1792
Texture Mapping Units 60 112
Render Output Units 40 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 384-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3000 million 4313 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 570

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Radeon R9 280

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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