Nvidia Titan Xp vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 295X2, which has clock speeds of 1018 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator 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

Nvidia Titan Xp		27938 points
Radeon R9 295X2		21205 points
	Difference: 6733 (32%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 250 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 295X2 should be 14% quicker than the Nvidia Titan Xp in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
	Difference: 79155 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp is just a bit (about 6%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 295X2. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21344 (6%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan Xp is a better choice, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21568 (17%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR 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 number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.