GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 280, which features a core clock frequency of 933 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also features a 384-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 1792 SPUs, 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

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		17120 points
Radeon R9 280		7961 points
	Difference: 9159 (115%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		425 Sol/s
Radeon R9 280		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 242 (132%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		22 Mh/s
Radeon R9 280		22 Mh/s
	Difference: 0 (0%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti should in theory be a lot faster than the Radeon R9 280 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 96000 (40%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti should be a lot (more or less 68%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 71504 (68%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be much (approximately 222%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 280, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66144 (222%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one 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 sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.