GeForce GTX 750 Ti vs Radeon R9 280

GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Radeon R9 280
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2014
Radeon R9 280

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon R9 280
    174%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 750 Ti

140 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 280 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Around 74% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 280

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 280

The Radeon R9 280 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 750 TiRadeon R9 280
GPU NameGM107 (GM107-400-A2)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO3)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders640vs1792
Compute Units5vs28
Core clock1020 MHzvs827 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 750 TiRadeon R9 280
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 750 TiRadeon R9 280
TDP60 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date18 Feb 2014vs4 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    16.32 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 280
    29.86 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    40.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 280
    104.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    86.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 280
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    1305.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 280
    3344.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    5610
  • Radeon R9 280
    9790

Points (higher is better)