GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this card. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 Texture Address Units 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

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

In theory, the Radeon R9 290X should be 22% faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is quite a bit (approximately 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 a lot (approximately 101%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R9 290X, and also able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.