Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 290X, which features clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 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 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 better than 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 will be a lot (more or less 37%) better 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 high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290X is superior to the Geforce GTX 670, by a large margin. (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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.