AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1687 points

1799 points

6% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

26 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

22 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2350 points

2833 points

20% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz

863 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

10% 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

288 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

0.14% 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

32 Gigapixels/s

43.3 Gigapixels/s

35% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128 Gigatexels/s

173.2 Gigatexels/s

35% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

4.16 TFLOPS

1% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2304

12% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

192

49% 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

226th 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 280X vs GeForce GTX 780 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon R9 280X graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 780 in our tests.

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 280X 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 780 has significantly more memory with 6 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, both the Radeon R9 280X and the GeForce GTX 780 have an identical TDP. 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 780.