Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this model. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 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 290		9876 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 3953 (67%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290		29 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 16 (123%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (76%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 290 is 66% quicker than the Geforce GTX 760 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 127744 (66%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 will be much (approximately 36%) better at AF than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 33920 (36%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 should be much (more or less 63%) more effective at FSAA than the Geforce GTX 760, and should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19840 (63%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at 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 graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.