GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs Radeon R9 280X
Summary
GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
125%
Radeon R9 280X
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780 6 GB |
Around 25% higher average synthetic performance. |
Supports PhysX |
Supports G-Sync |
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 280X |
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Supports Mantle |
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
The GeForce GTX 780 6 GB is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 780 6 GB | | Radeon R9 280X | |
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GPU Name | GK110B (GK110-301-B1) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti XTL) |
Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 561 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
Transistors | 7,080 million | vs | 4,313 million |
Shaders | 2304 | vs | 2048 |
Compute Units | 12 | vs | 32 |
Core clock | 863 MHz | vs | 850 MHz |
ROPs | 48 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 192 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 780 6 GB | | Radeon R9 280X | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 384 bit | vs | 384 bit |
Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 780 6 GB | | Radeon R9 280X | |
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TDP | 250 watts | vs | 250 watts |
Release Date | 10 Sep 2013 | vs | 8 Oct 2013 |
GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
41.40 GP/s
Radeon R9 280X
27.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
166.00 GT/s
Radeon R9 280X
109.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
288.00 GB/s
Radeon R9 280X
288.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
3977.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 280X
3482.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
13770
Radeon R9 280X
10960
Points (higher is better)