GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 280, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 933 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this particular card. 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 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 4495 (130%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 280 should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 111744 (87%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280 is much (approximately 99%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 51888 (99%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 280 is the winner, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3552 (14%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write 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 core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.