GeForce RTX 4070 Ti vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 280, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 933 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1250 MHz on this model. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		285 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (14%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 280 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		516096 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 276096 (115%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should be much (about 431%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		554400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 449904 (431%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should be a lot (approximately 519%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R9 280, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		184800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 154944 (519%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.