AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, 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

26% slightly better overall score

1335 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

31 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

20 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

22 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

16 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2350 points

8% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2160 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz

1046 MHz

23% 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 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

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

230 W

8% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

32 Gigapixels/s

34.72 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128 Gigatexels/s

138.9 Gigatexels/s

8% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

22% slightly better floating point performance

3.33 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

33% slightly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

Identical

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 586

241st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

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

4.6

Radeon R9 280X vs GeForce GTX 770 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon R9 280X graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 770 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 770 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 770 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.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 770 has a slightly lower TDP at 230 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R9 280X over the GeForce GTX 770.