GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 280, which has a core clock speed of 933 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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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 1050 Ti		7734 points
	Difference: 227 (3%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		183 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		138 Sol/s
	Difference: 45 (33%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 280 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 125312 (109%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280 will be much (approximately 69%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42576 (69%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 38%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 280, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11424 (38%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.