GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 280X, which has a core clock speed of 850 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also features a 384-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 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 1070 Ti		19808 points
Radeon R9 280X		8886 points
	Difference: 10922 (123%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
Radeon R9 280X		250 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

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

Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 25856 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be a lot (approximately 125%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 280X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 135464 (125%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 278%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R9 280X, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 75648 (278%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.