Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 285, which comes with clock speeds of 918 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units 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 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

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 760 will be 9% faster than the Radeon R9 285 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (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 bit (about 9%) faster with regards to texture 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 lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is superior to the Radeon R9 285, not by a very large margin though. (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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs 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 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.