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GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 280
IntroThe GeForce GTX 970 has a GPU clock speed of 1050 MHz, and the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1664 Stream Processors, 104 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.Compare all that to the Radeon R9 280, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 933 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this card. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 32 ROPs.
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Memory BandwidthThe Radeon R9 280, in theory, should be just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 970 overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GTX 970 will be just a bit (more or less 5%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)
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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.
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2 Responses to “GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 280”So, these two cards are pretty much the same, exept at higher resolutions. I got my r9 280 at $130 after Mail in rebate, making it so that you could get three of these for a little bit more than one of the 970's. Wow.
No, you can't compare them. The GTX 970 is faster than a R9 290 and takes only a bit over half the power and is also much cooler. Also, the GTX 970 has a 'real world bandwidth' of ~300 GB/sec, what would be ~25% more - it has this compression technique like the new R9 285, just much better. The Texel Rate isn't really important, because even graphics cards years ago didn't have problems with AF anymore - you can try it yourself: Let the game run with 16xAF and then let it run with 4xAF - almost no performance difference but much cleaner picture...
I've had the Sapphire R9 280 Dual-X and now I'm upgrading to a GTX 970. It's a big difference, not only a small. YOu can throw EVERY game on it with MAX details at 1080p and you'll get stable 60fps... On some older games you can even downsample or run at 4K, like Mirror's Edge. With my R9 280 I sometimes didn't even get 60fps with High Settings @ 1080p and 4xMSAA.