GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 280, which comes with clock speeds of 933 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 TAUs 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 280		7961 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 4495 (130%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 280 is 87% faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 111744 (87%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280 will be quite a bit (more or less 99%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 51888 (99%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 280 is a little bit (about 14%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3552 (14%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.