GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 280X, which has core clock speeds of 850 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator 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 280X		8886 points
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		3434 points
	Difference: 5452 (159%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280X		21 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 11 (110%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		110 Watts
Radeon R9 280X		250 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 280X should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 201600 (233%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280X should be a lot (approximately 83%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 49408 (83%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 280X is superior to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12352 (83%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out 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 video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.