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GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon HD 7970
IntroThe GeForce GTX 295 uses a 55 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 576 MHz. The GDDR3 memory works at a speed of 999 MHz on this card. It features 240 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 28 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7970, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 925 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1375 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthAs far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 7970 should in theory be a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 295 overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon HD 7970 should be quite a bit (more or less 28%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 295. (explain)
Pixel RateIf using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 295 is superior to the Radeon HD 7970, not by a very large margin though. (explain)
Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit. One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of. Price Comparison
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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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3 Responses to “GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon HD 7970”gtx 295 still holds its weight up to the 580!
@ Anonymous, do you have first-hand experience of the two? Because you can't base it on the data for the GTX 295 in this site's GPU comparison database. According to this information the GTX 295 is the second best card in the world, beating all but the HD 7970. Just test it against any GPU above and you will see what I mean. I hope they will rectify the site soon.
This is why I haven't upgraded in 4 yearsi love my GTX295, we're still stuck on DX9 graphics, and can't wait till the Xbox one and ps4 gets released we will see all dx11 graphics then NO REASON TO UPGRADE YET