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GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R9 290
IntroThe GeForce GTX 1080 makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1607 MHz. The GDDR5X memory works at a speed of 1251 MHz on this particular card. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 290, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this particular card. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 TAUs and 64 ROPs.
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Memory BandwidthIn theory, the GeForce GTX 1080 should be 2% quicker than the Radeon R9 290 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GTX 1080 will be a lot (about 101%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is a better choice, by far. (explain)
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
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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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