AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 854.25 significantly less expensive

$ 1253.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

106% significantly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

Identical

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

18 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

14 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2043 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1841 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

827 MHz

915 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

933 MHz

980 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

240 GB/s

24% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

170 W

47% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.86 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

109.8 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.34 TFLOPS

26% slightly better floating point performance

2.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

33% slightly more shading units

1344

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

Identical

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

245th of 586

308th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 670 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 280 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 670 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 670 has a slightly 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 670 also has a slightly 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 670 has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 670 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280 at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R9 280 over the GeForce GTX 670.