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GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

The GeForce GTX Titan comes with core clock speeds of 837 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2688 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon R9 290X, which comes with a clock speed of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also features a 512-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2816 SPUs, 176 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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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

Radeon R9 290X		10609 points
GeForce GTX Titan		10162 points
	Difference: 447 (4%)

Grand Theft Auto V | 1920x1080 | Very High

Radeon R9 290X		60 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan		52 FPS
	Difference: 8 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
Radeon R9 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 290X should in theory be a small bit superior to the GeForce GTX Titan in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
	Difference: 31616 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan should be much (more or less 33%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46688 (33%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290X is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11024 (27%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model	GeForce GTX Titan	Radeon R9 290X
Manufacturer	nVidia	AMD
Year	February 2013	October 2013
Code Name	GK110	Hawaii XT
Memory	6144 MB	4096 MB
Core Speed	837 MHz	800 MHz
Memory Speed	6008 MHz	5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP)	250 watts	300 watts
Bandwidth	288384 MB/sec	320000 MB/sec
Texel Rate	187488 Mtexels/sec	140800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	40176 Mpixels/sec	51200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	2688	2816
Texture Mapping Units	224	176
Render Output Units	48	64
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	384-bit	512-bit
Fab Process	28 nm	28 nm
Transistors	7080 million	6200 million
Bus	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version	DirectX 11.0	DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.3	OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially 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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