Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 280, which has a clock frequency of 933 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also features a 384-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1792 SPUs, 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

Radeon R9 280		7961 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 2038 (34%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		22 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 9 (69%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 280 will be 25% quicker than the Geforce GTX 760 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 47744 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280 is a small bit (approximately 11%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10416 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is the winner, but not by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1504 (5%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.