GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 280, which comes with core speeds of 933 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should in theory be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 280 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 382899 (160%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 189%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 197904 (189%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 121344 (406%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most 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 worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's 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 also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.