AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 9.96 slightly less expensive

$ 408.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

1799 points

40% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

37 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

26 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

22 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2043 points

2833 points

38% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

827 MHz

863 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

933 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

6 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

Identical

384 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

240 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

20% slightly higher memory bandwidth

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

29.86 Gigapixels/s

43.3 Gigapixels/s

45% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

173.2 Gigatexels/s

65% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.34 TFLOPS

4.16 TFLOPS

24% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

2304

28% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

192

71% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

244th of 586

221st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

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 780 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 780 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 280 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 780 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. Despite this, the Radeon R9 280 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 780 has significantly more memory with 6 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 Radeon R9 280 and the GeForce GTX 780 have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 780 is faster than the Radeon R9 280.