GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 290X, which comes with GPU clock speed of 800 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also is made up of 2816 SPUs, 176 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 290X		10609 points
	Difference: 9199 (87%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 290X should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be much (more or less 73%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 103464 (73%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be quite a bit (approximately 101%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 290X, and capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR 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 worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

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