GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 280, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 933 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1250 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also features 1792 Stream Processors, 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

GeForce GTX 1070		18174 points
Radeon R9 280		7961 points
	Difference: 10213 (128%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1070		436 Sol/s
Radeon R9 280		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 253 (138%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1070 should in theory perform just a bit faster than the Radeon R9 280 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 22144 (9%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be much (about 73%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 76224 (73%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 is quite a bit (more or less 223%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R9 280, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66528 (223%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher 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 the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number 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 output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.