Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 285, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 918 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1375 MHz on this specific card. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs 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 285		8500 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 2577 (44%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 285		18 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 5 (38%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 760 should theoretically be a bit faster than the Radeon R9 285 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16256 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 285 should be a small bit (approximately 9%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8736 (9%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is a better choice, but not by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1984 (7%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR 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 by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.