GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 280X, which features GPU clock speed of 850 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1500 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 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 280X		8886 points
GeForce GTX 570		4387 points
	Difference: 4499 (103%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280X		21 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 570		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (62%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
Radeon R9 280X		250 Watts
	Difference: 31 Watts (14%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 280X should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 570 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
	Difference: 136000 (89%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280X should be quite a bit (about 148%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 64880 (148%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is a better choice, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2080 (8%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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