AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 419.00 significantly less expensive

$ 818.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

86% significantly better overall score

686 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2043 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1278 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

827 MHz

1020 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

933 MHz

1085 MHz

16% 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

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

240 GB/s

177% significantly higher memory bandwidth

86.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

60 W

316% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.86 Gigapixels/s

72% significantly higher pixel rate

17.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

140% significantly higher texture rate

43.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.34 TFLOPS

58% significantly better floating point performance

2.11 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

180% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

180% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

244th of 586

293rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February

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

Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 750 Ti specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon R9 280 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 750 Ti 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 750 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 750 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 750 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280 at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 280 is faster than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti.