GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 285, which comes with GPU clock speed of 918 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1375 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1792 Stream Processors, 112 Texture Address Units, 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 780 Ti		10900 points
Radeon R9 285		8500 points
	Difference: 2400 (28%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		19 Mh/s
Radeon R9 285		18 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (6%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
GeForce GTX 780 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon R9 285 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 160000 (91%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti is a lot (about 104%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		210000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 107184 (104%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 780 Ti is superior to the Radeon R9 285, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		42000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12624 (43%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.