Nvidia Titan Xp vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 280, which has a GPU core clock speed of 933 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1250 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is comprised of 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

Nvidia Titan Xp		27938 points
Radeon R9 280		7961 points
	Difference: 19977 (251%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Nvidia Titan Xp		810 Sol/s
Radeon R9 280		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 627 (343%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Nvidia Titan Xp should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 280 overall. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 320845 (134%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp is much (about 263%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 275184 (263%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan Xp is superior to the Radeon R9 280, by far. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 122016 (409%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.