GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290X, which has a clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also makes use of a 512-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2816 SPUs, 176 TAUs, 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 570		4387 points
	Difference: 6222 (142%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X		29 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 570		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 16 (123%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
Radeon R9 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 81 Watts (37%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 290X will be 111% quicker than the GeForce GTX 570 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
	Difference: 168000 (111%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290X will be much (more or less 221%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 96880 (221%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290X is superior to the GeForce GTX 570, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		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 maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video 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 number of ROPs by the the card's 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 is also dependant on quite a few 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.