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    GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs Radeon R9 280

    GeForce GTX 960 OEM
    Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 26 Nov 2015
    GeForce GTX 960 OEM
    Radeon R9 280
    Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 4 Mar 2014
    Radeon R9 280
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    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
      106%
    • Radeon R9 280
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960 OEM

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 960 OEM

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960 OEM

    The GeForce GTX 960 OEM is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 960 OEMRadeon R9 280
    GPU NameGM204 (GTX 960 OEM)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO3)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size398 mm²vs352 mm²
    Transistors5,200 millionvs4,313 million
    Shaders1280vs1792
    Compute Units10vs28
    Core clock924 MHzvs827 MHz
    ROPs48vs32
    TMUs80vs112

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 960 OEMRadeon R9 280
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit
    Memory Speed1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective    		vs1250 MHz
    5000 MHz effective
    Memory Size3072 Mbvs3072 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 960 OEMRadeon R9 280
    TDP0 wattsvs200 watts
    Release Date26 Nov 2015vs4 Mar 2014

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
      44.40 GP/s
    • Radeon R9 280
      29.86 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
      73.90 GT/s
    • Radeon R9 280
      104.50 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
      120.00 GB/s
    • Radeon R9 280
      240.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
      2365.00 GFLOPs
    • Radeon R9 280
      3344.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
      10380
    • Radeon R9 280
      9790

    Points (higher is better)

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