GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which features clock speeds of 926 MHz on the GPU, and 1650 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 295		289 Watts
	Difference: 169 Watts (141%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 295 should theoretically be just a bit better than the Radeon RX 470 4GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		223776 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 12576 (6%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 4GB will be quite a bit (about 29%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 295. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 295		92160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26368 (29%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 is a small bit (more or less 9%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and also capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		32256 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2624 (9%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.