GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 295X2, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1018 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this particular card. 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

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		31381 points
Radeon R9 295X2		21205 points
	Difference: 10176 (48%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		250 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 250 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 295X2 should theoretically be just a bit superior to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		630784 MB/sec
	Difference: 9216 (1%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti should be a bit (about 2%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 295X2. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		367200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8864 (2%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is superior to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		118800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11504 (10%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.