Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290X, which comes with clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2816 SPUs along with 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

Radeon R9 290X		10609 points
Geforce GTX 670		7351 points
	Difference: 3258 (44%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X		29 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 670		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 16 (123%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 670		170 Watts
Radeon R9 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (76%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 290X should in theory be a lot superior to the Geforce GTX 670 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
	Difference: 128000 (67%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290X is a lot (more or less 37%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 670. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 38320 (37%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290X is superior to the Geforce GTX 670, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21920 (75%)

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 max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.