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GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

The GeForce GTX 960 has clock speeds of 1127 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 280, which features GPU core speed of 933 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1250 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is comprised 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 960 7627 points
Difference: 334 (4%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280 183 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 960 154 Sol/s
Difference: 29 (19%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280 22 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960 11 Mh/s
Difference: 11 (100%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960 120 Watts
Radeon R9 280 250 Watts
Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 280 should be 114% quicker than the GeForce GTX 960 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 280 240000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 128000 (114%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280 will be a lot (more or less 45%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon R9 280 104496 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960 72128 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 32368 (45%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be quite a bit (more or less 21%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 280, and able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280 29856 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6208 (21%)

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

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GeForce GTX 960

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 960 Radeon R9 280
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2015 March 2014
Code Name GM206 Tahiti Pro
Memory 2048 MB 3072 MB
Core Speed 1127 MHz 933 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 250 watts
Bandwidth 112000 MB/sec 240000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 72128 Mtexels/sec 104496 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 36064 Mpixels/sec 29856 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 1792
Texture Mapping Units 64 112
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 384-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2940 million 4313 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 960

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Radeon R9 280

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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