GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 285, which features GPU clock speed of 918 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1375 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1792 SPUs, 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 285		8500 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 873 (11%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 285		18 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (64%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 285, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 64000 (57%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 285 will be a lot (more or less 43%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 30688 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be quite a bit (about 23%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 285, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6688 (23%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.