GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 280
Summary
GeForce GTX 970
160%
Radeon R9 280
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970 |
| 52 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 280 . |
| Around 60% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 970
The GeForce GTX 970 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970 | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM204 (GM204-200-A1) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti PRO3) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,200 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 1664 | vs | 1792 |
| Compute Units | 13 | vs | 28 |
| Core clock | 1050 MHz | vs | 827 MHz |
| ROPs | 56 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 104 | vs | 112 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970 | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 970 | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| TDP | 148 watts | vs | 200 watts |
| Release Date | 19 Sep 2014 | vs | 4 Mar 2014 |
GeForce GTX 970
58.80 GP/s
Radeon R9 280
29.86 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970
109.20 GT/s
Radeon R9 280
104.50 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970
224.40 GB/s
Radeon R9 280
240.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970
3494.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 280
3344.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970
15750
Radeon R9 280
9790
Points (higher is better)