AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1687 points

145% significantly better overall score

686 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2350 points

83% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1278 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz

1020 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1085 MHz

8% 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

288 GB/s

233% 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

32 Gigapixels/s

84% significantly higher pixel rate

17.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128 Gigatexels/s

194% significantly higher texture rate

43.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

94% significantly better floating point performance

2.11 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

220% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

220% 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

226th of 586

294th 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 280X vs GeForce GTX 750 Ti comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 280X GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti in gaming.

Our database shows that 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 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 750 Ti has slightly more memory with 4 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, the GeForce GTX 750 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280X 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.

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