GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 295X2, which features GPU clock speed of 1018 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2816 Stream Processors, 176 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 295X2		21205 points
GeForce GTX Titan		10162 points
	Difference: 11043 (109%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 250 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 295X2 should theoretically perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX Titan in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
	Difference: 351616 (122%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be a lot (approximately 91%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX Titan. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 170848 (91%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is superior to the GeForce GTX Titan, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 90128 (224%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many 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.