Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 285, which features GPU core speed of 918 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1375 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1792 Stream Processors, 112 Texture Address Units, 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 760		5923 points
	Difference: 2577 (44%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 285		18 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 5 (38%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 760 is 9% faster than the Radeon R9 285 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16256 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 285 will be a little bit (more or less 9%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8736 (9%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be a little bit (more or less 7%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R9 285, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1984 (7%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.