AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 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

1687 points

63% significantly better overall score

1029 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

23 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

12 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2350 points

40% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1673 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz

980 MHz

15% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1032 MHz

3% 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

288 GB/s

49% significantly 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

32 Gigapixels/s

29% slightly higher pixel rate

24.77 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

99.07 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

72% significantly better floating point performance

2.38 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

77% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

33% 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

226th 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 280X vs GeForce GTX 760 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 280X GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 760 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 760 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 760 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 760 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 760 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280X 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 280X is faster than the GeForce GTX 760.