NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 280

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 280

Price

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$ 206.47

$ 192.53 significantly less expensive

$ 399.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1456 points

13% slightly better overall score

1280 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

31 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

27 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2341 points

14% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2043 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

55% significantly higher core clock speed

827 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz

49% significantly higher boost clock speed

933 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

240 GB/s

114% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

233% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

44.54 Gigapixels/s

49% significantly higher pixel rate

29.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s

104.5 Gigatexels/s

56% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.14 TFLOPS

3.34 TFLOPS

56% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1792

133% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

133% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 586

244th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 280 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 280 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280 at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 280 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.