AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3 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

2374 points

40% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS

51 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

34 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

35 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

27 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2350 points

3376 points

43% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz

875 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

928 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

Identical

3 GiB

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

336.6 GB/s

16% 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

55.68 Gigapixels/s

73% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128 Gigatexels/s

222.7 Gigatexels/s

73% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

5.34 TFLOPS

30% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2880

40% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

240

87% 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

185th 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

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon R9 280X vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti specs and performance

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

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 780 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. Despite this, the Radeon R9 280X 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 they both have the same amount of memory at 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the Radeon R9 280X and the GeForce GTX 780 Ti 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 Ti is faster than the Radeon R9 280X.