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Radeon R9 280X vs Radeon R9 290
IntroThe Radeon R9 280X uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 850 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs.Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290, which comes with GPU core speed of 800 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also features 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.
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Memory BandwidthThe Radeon R9 290 should in theory perform just a bit faster than the Radeon R9 280X in general. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon R9 290 will be a little bit (approximately 18%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 280X. (explain)
Pixel RateIf using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290 is superior to the Radeon R9 280X, and very much so. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen 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 amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max 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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