NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

270% significantly better overall score

1687 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

129 FPS

89 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

40 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

35 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9899 points

321% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2350 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

74% significantly higher core clock speed

850 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

58% significantly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

266% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

384 Bit

9% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

68% significantly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

Identical

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

335% significantly higher pixel rate

32 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

176% significantly higher texture rate

128 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

176% significantly better floating point performance

4.10 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

75% significantly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

75% significantly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

175% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

226th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon R9 280X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti beats the Radeon R9 280X in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has significantly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and the Radeon R9 280X have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is faster than the Radeon R9 280X.