AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 4 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

1280 points

24% slightly better overall score

1029 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

23 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

12 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2043 points

22% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1673 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

827 MHz

980 MHz

18% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

933 MHz

1032 MHz

10% 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

20% slightly higher pixel rate

24.77 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

99.07 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.34 TFLOPS

40% slightly better floating point performance

2.38 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

55% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

16% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

244th of 586

262nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 November

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 760 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R9 280 beats the GeForce GTX 760 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 760 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 760 also has a slightly 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 760 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 760 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 760.