Radeon R9 280X vs HD 7950 |
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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of R9 280X vs 7950 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Value | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
No winner declared
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Much better 3DMark06 score | 28,452 | vs | 16,730 | More than 70% better 3DMark06 score | |||
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| Better PassMark score | 5,809 | vs | 4,764 | More than 20% better PassMark score | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 288 GB/s | vs | 240 GB/s | 20% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 6,000 MHz | vs | 5,000 MHz | 20% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 4,096 GFLOPS | vs | 2,867.2 GFLOPS | Around 45% better floating-point performance | |||
| Higher texture rate | 128 GTexel/s | vs | 89.6 GTexel/s | Around 45% higher texture rate | |||
| Slightly better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 10,792 | vs | 9,290 | More than 15% better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,500 MHz | vs | 1,250 MHz | 20% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Better bitcoin mining score | 468.39 mHash/s | vs | 382.11 mHash/s | Around 25% better bitcoin mining score | |||
| More shading units | 2,048 | vs | 1,792 | 256 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 128 | vs | 112 | 16 more texture mapping units | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 3,677 | vs | 2,725 | Around 35% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Better sky diver factor score | 380.99 | vs | 355.06 | More than 5% better sky diver factor score | |||
| Slightly more compute units | 32 | vs | 28 | 4 more compute units | |||
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| Much better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 31,710 | vs | 11,255 | More than 2.8x better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Lower TDP | 200W | vs | 250W | 20% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon R9 280X vs HD 7950
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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