GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 280
Summary
GeForce GTX 960
106%
Radeon R9 280
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960 |
| 80 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 280 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 6% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 280 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 960
The GeForce GTX 960 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 960 | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM206 (GM206-300-A1) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti PRO3) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 228 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,940 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 1024 | vs | 1792 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 28 |
| Core clock | 1127 MHz | vs | 827 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 64 | vs | 112 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 960 | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 960 | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| TDP | 120 watts | vs | 200 watts |
| Release Date | 22 Jan 2015 | vs | 4 Mar 2014 |
GeForce GTX 960
36.10 GP/s
Radeon R9 280
29.86 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960
72.10 GT/s
Radeon R9 280
104.50 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960
112.20 GB/s
Radeon R9 280
240.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960
2308.10 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 280
3344.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960
10380
Radeon R9 280
9790
Points (higher is better)