R9280X vs gtx 770: AMD R9 280X vs Nvidia GTX 770

AMD R9 280X vs Nvidia GTX 770

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Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		36. 4 %			37.6 %	+3%


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	40.6 fps		47.3 fps	Better lighting effects. +17%
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	39.2 fps	Better reflection handling. +11%	35.3 fps
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	54.3 fps	Much faster multi rendering. +75%	31.1 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	49.6 fps	+2%	48. 4 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	43.4 fps		53.9 fps	Better peak lighting effects. +24%
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	48.2 fps	Better peak reflection handling. +19%	40.6 fps
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	56.6 fps	Much faster peak multi rendering. +59%	35.6 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	53.3 fps		55.8 fps	+5%


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	140 Fps	+2%	137 Fps
Fortnite Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	79 Fps	Much Better Fortnite Fps. +32%	59 Fps
GTAV Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	44 Fps	Slightly Better GTAV Fps. +8%	40 Fps
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	139 Fps	Better LoL Fps. +13%	123 Fps
Overwatch Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	78 Fps	Better Overwatch Fps. +12%	70 Fps
BF1 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	43 Fps		49 Fps	Better BF1 Fps. +15%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	40 Fps	+4%	39 Fps
Minecraft Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	136 Fps	Much Better Minecraft Fps. +34%	102 Fps
DOTA 2 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	100 Fps		105 Fps	Slightly Better DOTA 2 Fps. +6%
WoW Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	51 Fps	Better WoW Fps. +25%	41 Fps
WoT Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	65 Fps	Better WoT Fps. +13%	58 Fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.17 %	Hugely higher market share. +467%	0.03 %
Value Value For Money	30.9 %	Much better value. +74%	17.8 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	57 %		61 %	Slightly more popular. +7%
Price Price (score)	$279	Much cheaper. +44%	$500


Age Newest	114 Months		109 Months	+4%
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	56. 7 fps		69.5 fps	Better peak texture detail. +23%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	42.6 fps	Much faster peak complex splatting. +52%	28 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	52.5 fps		59.4 fps	Better texture detail. +13%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	39.3 fps	Much faster complex splatting. +61%	24.4 fps

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AMD Radeon R9 280X vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 review

The arrival of AMD’s latest mid-range graphics card, the Radeon R9 280X, reignites the battle for the most affordable serious gaming GPU. With Nvidia’s rival, the GeForce GTX 770, priced almost identically, we’ve put the two cards in a head-to-head contest.

Nvidia and AMD’s mid-range cards have more in common than only cost. The names may be new, but the hardware underneath remains largely the same as the previous generation.

The Hardware

AMD’s newest arrival, the Radeon R9 280X, is an overclocked Radeon HD 7970. Inside, the 28nm Tahiti XTL GPU has received a speed bump, and the 3GB of GDDR5 RAM now barrels along at an effective rate of 6GHz.

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 770 made its debut back in May, and its engine is equally familiar. There’s the same 28nm GK104 GPU as found in the GeForce GTX 680, but Nvidia has bumped the core clock up by a modest 40MHz, and boosted memory speeds from 6GHz to 7GHz. It now sports the GPU Boost 2 technology which debuted on the GeForce GTX 780. This dynamically overclocks the GPU as long as it’s operating within a safe temperature range.

Performance

As both of our review samples were factory-overclocked models (courtesy of HIS and PNY), we set both to manufacturer stock speeds before running our suite of benchmarks. Our test PC comprised of a 3.5GHz Intel Core i7-3770K CPU, 8GB of DDR3 RAM and a 512GB SSD.

At Full HD resolution and Very High quality, Crysis provides little challenge for either card. Here, the GTX 770 edged ahead with an average of 78fps to the R9 280X’s 74fps. At 2,560 x 1,440, the delta shrank to a single frame, the AMD card retaking the lead with a smooth 55fps.

Crytek’s latest shooter, Crysis 3, ups the hardware demands significantly. In our custom benchmark run at Full HD and Very High detail, the Nvidia card came back out on top, averaging 55fps to the AMD card’s 50fps, and maintaining a higher minimum framerate of 47fps versus the AMD card’s 40fps. At a resolution of 2,560 x 1,440, the GTX 770 remained in front with an average of 35fps and minimum of 30fps pushing it two frames per second ahead of the R9 280X.

At idle, power consumption was pretty similar for both cards, but the R9 280X upped our system’s power draw to 335W while running FurMark – 16% more than the GTX 770’s 288W.

As both of our test cards were using proprietary (and very quiet) twin-fan coolers, however, we couldn’t usefully assess the noise output or running temperature of the GPUs. We suspect the stock coolers from both manufacturers will be substantially noisier, though.

Conclusion

AMD’s Radeon R9 280X and Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 770 deliver solid gaming performance across the board. It’s only once you start playing the most demanding of games (such as Crysis 3) at 2,560 x 1,440 resolution and above that you’ll begin to reach the limits of their capabilities.

As both cards are currently retailing for around £240, it’s Nvidia that wrests victory by the narrowest of margins. Nvidia’s mid-range brawler bests its rival by delivering higher average and minimum framerates across our Crysis tests, and packing in more performance into every watt.

With prices shifting constantly, however, it would only take a modest price cut to put AMD back in the ascendancy. Shop around, and if you can find either GPU – or even an older Radeon HD 7970 – at a substantially cheaper price, then we wouldn’t hesitate to shift our allegiance to the least costly option.