GeForce GTX 750 Ti vs Radeon R9 280X

GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Radeon R9 280X
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 280X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    195%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    175%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 750 Ti

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

75% higher gaming 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 280X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 280X

The Radeon R9 280X is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (9 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 750 TiRadeon R9 280X
GPU NameGM107 (GM107-400-A2)vsTahiti (Tahiti XTL)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders640vs2048
Compute Units5vs32
Core clock1020 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 750 TiRadeon R9 280X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 750 TiRadeon R9 280X
TDP60 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date18 Feb 2014vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

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

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

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

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    1305.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 280X
    3482.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    5610
  • Radeon R9 280X
    10960

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    37
  • Radeon R9 280X
    72

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    48
  • Radeon R9 280X
    69

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    25
  • Radeon R9 280X
    42

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    36
  • Radeon R9 280X
    69

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    36
  • Radeon R9 280X
    67

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    30
  • Radeon R9 280X
    48

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    23
  • Radeon R9 280X
    47

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    36
  • Radeon R9 280X
    51

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    34
  • Radeon R9 280X
    63

FPS (higher is better)