GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 295X2, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1018 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also features 2816 Stream Processors, 176 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 210 Watts (72%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 295X2 will be 3% faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
	Difference: 17101 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be a small bit (about 18%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55936 (18%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be just a bit (more or less 16%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R9 295X2, and able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20896 (16%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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 potential to get to the max fill rate.