GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 290, which has GPU clock speed of 800 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also features 2560 Stream Processors, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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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

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		19808 points
Radeon R9 290		9876 points
	Difference: 9932 (101%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 290 should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 57856 (22%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be quite a bit (approximately 91%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 116264 (91%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is much (approximately 101%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 290, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 51648 (101%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.