GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 280, which has GPU core speed of 933 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1250 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1792 Stream Processors, 112 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation 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 280		7961 points
GeForce GTX 570		4387 points
	Difference: 3574 (81%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		22 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 570		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 9 (69%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 280 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 570 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
	Difference: 88000 (58%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280 is much (about 138%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 60576 (138%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 280 is a better choice, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 576 (2%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.