GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 280, which has core speeds of 933 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 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 950		6536 points
	Difference: 1425 (22%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		22 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 12 (120%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		183 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 950		155 Sol/s
	Difference: 28 (18%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (178%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 280 should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 134272 (127%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280 is a lot (approximately 113%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55344 (113%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 should be just a bit (approximately 10%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 280, and also capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2912 (10%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, 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 worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.